---
type: "Bill"
title: "Harford County - Alcoholic Beverages - Common Direct or Indirect Sharing of Profit"
description: "Harford County - Alcoholic Beverages - Common Direct or Indirect Sharing of Profit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1177"
citation: "Maryland SB 1177 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages - Local Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages Licenses", "Alcoholic Beverages - By Subdivision", "Harford County", "Interest", "Leases and Rent", "Retail Sales"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennings and Norman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5794ef6f-7f2c-4084-abbe-6418c7c37d47"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1177&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a9476ab4ff52b41548e0222bcf92a09e511a10c2b68136b0ea2fdbcc0101de43"
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 1177 (2017) — Harford County - Alcoholic Beverages - Common Direct or Indirect Sharing of Profit

## 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/sb1177f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jennings and Norman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-06** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-10** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Special Order until 3/28 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2017-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Floor Amendment {713925/1 (Senator Cassilly) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-29** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-30** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Economic Matters
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (112-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5794ef6f-7f2c-4084-abbe-6418c7c37d47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).