---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification"
description: "Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 617"
citation: "Maryland HB 617 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba909664-81e3-40be-815c-e96b3ef8ceac"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0617?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4827cbcde8ba74e081854baae225fb3c48793b952c8e2faac2e19eadb28ad301"
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 617 (2025) — Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_634_hb0617t.pdf)
2. **First - Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0617f.pdf)
3. **Third - Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0617t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba909664-81e3-40be-815c-e96b3ef8ceac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).