---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program"
description: "State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 273"
citation: "Maryland SB 273 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Natural Resources - Generally", "Animals", "Appropriations", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Boundaries", "Commerce and Business", "Consumer Price Index", "Counties", "Forests and Parks", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Program Open Space", "Revenue and Taxes", "State Aid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eac75b00-6011-49ff-8493-04092ad4c55a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB273&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "80581cb4cdf548b7a658d7f2716b4a7670126f5566e42d8be505f2f032f16e33"
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 273 (2017) — State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program

## 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/sb0273f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **133–4** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {969932/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments {490014/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-4) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eac75b00-6011-49ff-8493-04092ad4c55a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).