---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation"
description: "Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 177"
citation: "Maryland SB 177 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Appropriations", "Bonds", "Capital Budgets", "Contracts", "General Assembly", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Ocean City", "Public Works", "Board of", "Stadium Authority", "Stadiums"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Minority Leader (By Request - Administration) and Carozza"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a15a25f-afcb-42ee-9a99-0e952cb58a6c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB177&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "21c6d83888011bc9a1007a37f6b37be8e6fffac3066a5a4df5760c73fcdf5c58"
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 177 (2019) — Maryland Stadium Authority - Ocean City Convention Facility - Renovation

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0177f.pdf)

## Votes

- Suspened Rule 24 to allow two reading of a bill in the same day — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The Minority Leader (By Request - Administration) and Carozza — primary (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Gallion — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Motion two readings same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Carozza) Adopted
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-06** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a15a25f-afcb-42ee-9a99-0e952cb58a6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).