---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government – School Construction – Permits"
description: "Local Government – School Construction – Permits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 221"
citation: "Maryland HB 221 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government - Generally", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Construction", "Counties", "Licenses", "Municipal Corporations", "Private Schools", "Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bromwell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01780791-4398-4801-96a0-da6f57518685"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB221&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "d8a6f96923ed545b5a22d89e53c010abc8117f9dd5147a84627075c83aaeb84e"
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 HB 221 (2018) — Local Government – School Construction – Permits

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0221f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bromwell — primary (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {784469/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 81 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01780791-4398-4801-96a0-da6f57518685`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).