---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions"
description: "Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 649"
citation: "Maryland SB 649 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utility Regulation", "Consumer Protection", "Federal Government", "Human Resources", "Department of", "Indigent Persons", "Prices", "Telephones", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d155c929-9b76-47e3-b571-45f2d7a3c32b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB649&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "538df793b0b77782a3bc210872c01b972482957a98be642cbb5c8632aa063dc2"
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 649 (2017) — Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions

## 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/sb0649f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {807274/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-23** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d155c929-9b76-47e3-b571-45f2d7a3c32b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).