---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness"
description: "Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 701"
citation: "Maryland SB 701 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bc0e39d-28b4-4816-b486-7ba58ae0f3d9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0701?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6d569a14dcc7ae5fa53bac38e41d60f36c77421eacf0960ad2edb28c33e4072a"
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 701 (2021) — Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_277_sb0701t.pdf)
2. **First - Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0701f.pdf)
3. **Third - Bay Restoration Fund - County Authority to Incur Indebtedness** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0701t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **117–20** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bc0e39d-28b4-4816-b486-7ba58ae0f3d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).