---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allegany County - Sheriff's Deputies - Salary and Duties"
description: "Allegany County - Sheriff's Deputies - Salary and Duties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 639"
citation: "Maryland SB 639 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Public Safety", "Allegany County", "Budgets", "Salaries and Compensation", "Sheriffs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a655cda-bb78-4f03-a0d7-3c4d3085de7e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB639&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6b14be9161528412f800b10845f2d0be6ea882ebba6793736c8be2c6120d0822"
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 639 (2017) — Allegany County - Sheriff's Deputies - Salary and Duties

## 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/sb/sb0639f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a655cda-bb78-4f03-a0d7-3c4d3085de7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).