---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Ballot Issues - Contributions or Donations by Foreign Principals"
description: "Election Law - Ballot Issues - Contributions or Donations by Foreign Principals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 130"
citation: "Maryland SB 130 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Ballots", "Campaign Financing", "Communications", "Elections", "Gifts", "Immigrants and Citizenship", "Political Candidates", "Political Committees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb16a4d2-ab4e-4995-85da-c8fd016d3717"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB130&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "19ba1ae943a82f3e4bfb9441f465f8a4373bfcec917e0ff373fb00f1a63a9a35"
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 130 (2017) — Election Law - Ballot Issues - Contributions or Donations by Foreign Principals

## 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/sb0130f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-17** Hearing canceled
- **2017-01-17** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-13** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb16a4d2-ab4e-4995-85da-c8fd016d3717`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).