---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities - Water Companies and Sewage Disposal Companies - Rate Cases and Proceedings"
description: "Public Utilities - Water Companies and Sewage Disposal Companies - Rate Cases and Proceedings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 218"
citation: "Maryland SB 218 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utility Regulation", "Disclosure", "Industry and Technology", "Prices", "Public Service Commission", "Refuse Disposal", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Time", "Utilities", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbccdb6f-2dba-4d1c-bb56-7e8e0aa6571b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB218&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7a3373f5b6909a2db4482d8803fe12fc893ef8c42974e918fb7a17f57a00b14d"
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 218 (2017) — Public Utilities - Water Companies and Sewage Disposal Companies - Rate Cases and Proceedings

## 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/sb0218f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-02** Favorable with Amendments {137474/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-06** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbccdb6f-2dba-4d1c-bb56-7e8e0aa6571b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).