---
type: "Bill"
title: "Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase"
description: "Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "Maryland SB 257 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources - Generally", "Operating Budget", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Historical Matters", "Program Open Space", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kasemeyer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b4692a0-665f-4180-9ab6-deee344d6790"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB257&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "18c175c963936228728db8b4bb7e6a8c4f9fef427f67487b8200f3ebfb2a9288"
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 257 (2017) — Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase

## 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/sb0257f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kasemeyer — primary (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {329935/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b4692a0-665f-4180-9ab6-deee344d6790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).