---
type: "Bill"
title: "Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017"
description: "Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1169"
citation: "Maryland HB 1169 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Utility Regulation", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Counties", "Electronic Communication", "Federal Government", "Reports", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/557d6a12-6097-4ced-a6ab-c593d958c07c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1169&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3ed1da99cf31016bd20e596c7bf2d095bf8b9b6ee9dd6a7ce0ac87835bd5fc95"
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 1169 (2017) — Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1169f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mautz — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {143599/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-04-05** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/557d6a12-6097-4ced-a6ab-c593d958c07c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).