---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Hotel Room Tax - Convention Center Promotion and Operations"
description: "Baltimore City - Hotel Room Tax - Convention Center Promotion and Operations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "Maryland SB 846 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Miscellaneous - Local", "Baltimore City", "Conventions", "Hotels and Motels", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway (By Request - Baltimore City Administration)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23dcf176-50c0-4eb4-8617-48689cc14ac6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB846&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "031fa9bb08dca59573f0b88284aff6776b8e220fd93daf6cefc4edbb5cef1a7c"
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 846 (2017) — Baltimore City - Hotel Room Tax - Convention Center Promotion and Operations

## 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/sb0846f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Conway (By Request - Baltimore City Administration) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {409038/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (44-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-2) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23dcf176-50c0-4eb4-8617-48689cc14ac6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).