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type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act"
description: "State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Maryland SB 137 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Archives", "Cybersecurity", "Electronic Communication", "Electronic Government", "Evidence", "Federal Government", "Identification", "Interstate Affairs", "Jurisdiction", "Notices", "Publications", "Public Information", "Recordation", "Records", "Rules and Regulations", "Uniform Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47008e23-e470-495e-8a24-289633352cb1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB137&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6678ccfb564ce25368ef5fa4b830a1c2c31bcf91909a1e48a6d31e100a9deaa6"
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 137 (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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0137f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Lee — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 554 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47008e23-e470-495e-8a24-289633352cb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).