---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions"
description: "Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 999"
citation: "Maryland HB 999 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utility Regulation", "Consumer Protection", "Federal Government", "Human Resources", "Department of", "Prices", "Telephones", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1b01016-8783-4164-84ef-49edad1861c8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB999&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "08db1413683b58227ee6b264485341d4bb2090e7b9610dc4d33d9e97a495dffd"
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 999 (2017) — Public Utilities - Telephone Lifeline Service - Revisions

## 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/hb0999f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-29** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1b01016-8783-4164-84ef-49edad1861c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).