---
type: "Bill"
title: "Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase"
description: "Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 717"
citation: "Maryland SB 717 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carozza"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e5b033b-2ed8-4c18-9098-0db9e4774a4c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0717?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a06f6d04be3887e6a1cb27912500b94d0e94c8d2629a4cabcc86d91ce1bea3c6"
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 717 (2025) — Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_399_sb0717t.pdf)
2. **First - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0717f.pdf)
3. **Third - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0717t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carozza — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e5b033b-2ed8-4c18-9098-0db9e4774a4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).