---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training"
description: "Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 450"
citation: "Maryland SB 450 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Administrative Agencies", "Associations", "Attorney General", "Committees and Commissions", "Education", "Boards of", "Electronic Government", "Job Training", "Notices", "Open Government", "Public Employees", "Public Officials", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Manno"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6407e1f-4c52-4669-8838-77cdbe2c193e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB450&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "114f470c3b664ac401cc6b45bb5f2a38bd79990e8a54ddcbf85d774ee9cb3e75"
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 450 (2017) — Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training

## 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/sb0450f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Manno — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {964436/1 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 Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {996389/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 526 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6407e1f-4c52-4669-8838-77cdbe2c193e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).