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type: "Bill"
title: "Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training"
description: "Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 880"
citation: "Maryland HB 880 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Administrative Agencies", "Attorneys", "Attorney General", "Committees and Commissions", "Court of Appeals", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Job Training", "Notices", "Open Government", "Public Employees", "Public Officials", "Reports", "Review Boards", "Rules and Regulations", "State Universities and Colleges", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0284718-69a8-42b6-b997-3a1985f1f934"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB880&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9fdc701bd8c98ad44b03e073d3891294669a93eec55f1f8fb605164d4b28e989"
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 880 (2017) — Open Meetings Act - Annual Reporting Requirement, Web Site Postings, and Training
## 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/hb0880f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1360** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **460** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Morales — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {916087/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {724638/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0284718-69a8-42b6-b997-3a1985f1f934`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).