---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Ethics - Bicounty Commissions - Financial Disclosure"
description: "Public Ethics - Bicounty Commissions - Financial Disclosure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "Maryland SB 18 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ethics", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "County Councils", "Disclosure", "Electronic Government", "Ethics", "Montgomery County", "Notices", "Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-09-27"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e074aef-b35b-4b06-843b-0f85615ba23f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB18&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "272eea16d985b5bcfa2fb18ad6f23a8317225eefccef0a98784d6c19536357a3"
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 18 (2017) — Public Ethics - Bicounty Commissions - Financial Disclosure

## 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/sb0018f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Education — cosponsor (person)
- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - State Ethics Commission) — cosponsor (person)
- Health — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-09-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-06** Hearing 1/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {724136/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e074aef-b35b-4b06-843b-0f85615ba23f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).