republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/hb-165.md

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Maryland HB 165 (2017) — State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Barron and Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-19 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Hearing 2/01 at 3:00 p.m.
• 2017-02-14 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-15 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-15 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-02-17 Third Reading Passed (135-0) passage
• 2017-02-20 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-30 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-30 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-07 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2017-04-07 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60b4f4b9-3edd-42fe-b7ec-e90f7825307f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).