---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Legislative Audits - Performance Audits - Local Alcoholic Beverages Licensing Boards"
description: "Office of Legislative Audits - Performance Audits - Local Alcoholic Beverages Licensing Boards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 792"
citation: "Maryland HB 792 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - General Assembly", "Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages", "Annapolis", "Auditors and Audits", "Baltimore City", "Counties", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "License Commissioners", "Boards of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barkley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcb97d0a-5c79-4f64-8454-efcf7e36d2d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB792&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c4c83cb54dd1bff3b4e7f62b1f370d8cfb0a8ec4513a48491a17a97bd53f6504"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 792 (2017) — Office of Legislative Audits - Performance Audits - Local Alcoholic Beverages Licensing Boards

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0792f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barkley — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {843494/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {879238/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcb97d0a-5c79-4f64-8454-efcf7e36d2d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).