---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation"
description: "Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 178"
citation: "Maryland HB 178 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Appropriations", "Bonds", "Capital Budgets", "Contracts", "General Assembly", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Ocean City", "Public Works", "Board of", "Stadium Authority", "Stadiums"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Hartman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55c45d9c-8720-46bc-bdce-5f92876a2327"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB178&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "429af7997031b4789661bfa35bdf4cbcc7f7b1021a3dc71ed451c62d3bea99c5"
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 178 (2019) — Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0178f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Hartman — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55c45d9c-8720-46bc-bdce-5f92876a2327`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).