---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Water and Sewer and Solid Waste Management Plan Approval"
description: "Environment - Water and Sewer and Solid Waste Management Plan Approval"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1040"
citation: "Maryland SB 1040 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Counties", "Environment", "Department of", "Notices", "Sewage", "Time", "Utilities", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-13"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdb4016c-0e09-47f7-b69d-c0b9803586bd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1040&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "22510406494b220fcae684f13dc23ff99c8f4c784dfe396a7d597766fa2d1ba9"
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 SB 1040 (2017) — Environment - Water and Sewer and Solid Waste Management Plan Approval

## 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/sb/sb1040f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ready — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-13** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {974431/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (45-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {700012/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdb4016c-0e09-47f7-b69d-c0b9803586bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).