---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bay Restoration Fund - Upgraded Wastewater Facilities - Grants to Counties and Municipalities"
description: "Bay Restoration Fund - Upgraded Wastewater Facilities - Grants to Counties and Municipalities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1190"
citation: "Maryland SB 1190 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Counties", "Environment", "Department of", "Grants", "Municipal Corporations", "Public Information", "Revenue and Taxes", "Safety", "Sewage", "Sunset", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt and Serafini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-14"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91f296d1-659c-4cfa-b660-6290d324d32c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1190&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a97b6f9f4e12ce59f6133a2b2cf8b30744aa5ff893d4a874630f740335f95177"
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 1190 (2017) — Bay Restoration Fund - Upgraded Wastewater Facilities - Grants to Counties and Municipalities

## 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/sb1190f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt and Serafini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-14** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Motion Rules Suspended for late introduction (Senator Eckardt) Adopted
- **2017-03-14** Motion Rules Suspended Referred
- **2017-03-14** Referred Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {194537/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2017-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 397 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91f296d1-659c-4cfa-b660-6290d324d32c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).