---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bay Restoration Fund - Eligible Costs - Expansion"
description: "Bay Restoration Fund - Eligible Costs - Expansion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 343"
citation: "Maryland SB 343 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Chesapeake Bay", "Environment", "Department of", "Pollution", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sewage"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38fd9ce8-2091-4a8d-ba60-6b94adc740d2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB343&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a86b4460ca36bcc4d0a973856fc901d98e3520ae039075668f0cdbf10cac635b"
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 343 (2017) — Bay Restoration Fund - Eligible Costs - Expansion

## 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/sb0343f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {704134/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {780912/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38fd9ce8-2091-4a8d-ba60-6b94adc740d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).