---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Authority to Borrow Money"
description: "St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Authority to Borrow Money"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 735"
citation: "Maryland SB 735 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Committees and Commissions", "County Commissioners", "Loans", "Public Local Laws", "St. Mary's County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waugh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3813ca0d-c7ef-4386-ab35-0328759ff748"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB735&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c2006613138a2ae60a8cf8081be61127ed15e0b43dbfc894e42ee9aabf1674f6"
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 735 (2017) — St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Authority to Borrow Money

## 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/sb0735f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Waugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {684330/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {790715/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (141-0) `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 426 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3813ca0d-c7ef-4386-ab35-0328759ff748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).