---
type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
description: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "Maryland HB 243 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Electronic Communication", "Maps and Charts", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krimm"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71f081e9-8426-4ce0-bfdc-7f1a8d83f5f6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB243&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "ee90c9769abb5cc4ff4ecdd84beabe86ffd30f335106ced6f2b8ef1109d239f3"
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 243 (2018) — Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension

## 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/hb0243f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Krimm — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {613294/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71f081e9-8426-4ce0-bfdc-7f1a8d83f5f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).