---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties and Municipalities - Land Bank Authorities"
description: "Counties and Municipalities - Land Bank Authorities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 957"
citation: "Maryland SB 957 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Generally", "Abandoned Property", "Baltimore City", "Banks and Trust Companies", "Counties", "Exemptions", "Foreclosure", "Insurance", "Liens", "Municipal Corporations", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Real Property", "Sewage", "Tax Sales", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
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/e2fae7a5-1293-4b14-8225-201fab57eb6d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB957&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b88b5f3d2c49996cfcef7eddb8b920bf3e32b16c33da7823ea7383fafcfd037b"
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 957 (2017) — Counties and Municipalities - Land Bank Authorities

## 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/sb0957f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2017-03-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Favorable with Amendments {189937/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-23** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-24** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2fae7a5-1293-4b14-8225-201fab57eb6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).