---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Persons Doing Public Business - Reporting by Governmental Entities"
description: "Election Law - Persons Doing Public Business - Reporting by Governmental Entities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 632"
citation: "Maryland SB 632 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Administrative Agencies", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Disclosure", "Elections", "Notices", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e3f85aa-757c-44b2-a589-2a5101a78da1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB632&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "36e86cbb6cedf2d42c87abf21b37f7a56b460f2a2f9a5ab854bac25194899532"
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 632 (2017) — Election Law - Persons Doing Public Business - Reporting by Governmental Entities

## 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/sb0632f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {425769/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 630 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e3f85aa-757c-44b2-a589-2a5101a78da1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).