---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Tourism Development Board - Destination Marketing Organization Officials - Voting Rights"
description: "Maryland Tourism Development Board - Destination Marketing Organization Officials - Voting Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 87"
citation: "Maryland SB 87 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Committees and Commissions", "Tourism", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Astle and Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-11-07"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05bd8618-6500-4e11-a2d2-d15251aacfe8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB87&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "432d155fb1345d1a18abf9dccde48135c7c485c3aa237afae291bc27a88c097e"
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 87 (2017) — Maryland Tourism Development Board - Destination Marketing Organization Officials - Voting Rights

## 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/sb0087f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Astle and Middleton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-11-07** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-16** Hearing canceled
- **2017-01-16** Hearing 1/17 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2017-01-19** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-01-24** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2017-01-25** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05bd8618-6500-4e11-a2d2-d15251aacfe8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).