---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act - Application and Evaluation"
description: "Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act - Application and Evaluation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 307"
citation: "Maryland SB 307 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Highways", "Assessments", "Bridges and Tunnels", "Electronic Government", "Emergency Bills", "Highways", "Interstate Affairs", "Investments", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6416cfc-dd50-4e23-8abe-2e3b6bd6bb5d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB307&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "62e67d893f4b3b0be342df74f0a413c902615d4877714249179761e27509e23a"
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 307 (2017) — Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act - Application and Evaluation

## 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/sb0307f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {849036/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Laid Over (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {849036/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Floor Amendment {983727/1 (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-15** Floor Amendment {713728/1 (Senator Serafini) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-17** First Reading Appropriations and Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {584664/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6416cfc-dd50-4e23-8abe-2e3b6bd6bb5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).