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Bill Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017 Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017 us/states/md Maryland General Assembly 2017 SB 717 Maryland SB 717 (2017)
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Maryland SB 717 (2017) — Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017

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 — 1380 (pass) · legislature
  • Third Reading — 460 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Eckardt — primary (person)
  • Astle — cosponsor (person)
  • Benson — cosponsor (person)
  • Feldman — cosponsor (person)
  • Hershey — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennings — cosponsor (person)
  • Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
  • Mathias — cosponsor (person)
  • Middleton — cosponsor (person)
  • Oaks — cosponsor (person)
  • Reilly — cosponsor (person)
  • Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-03 First Reading Finance referral-committee
  • 2017-02-07 Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
  • 2017-03-24 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-24 Favorable with Amendments {997576/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-24 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
  • 2017-03-27 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
  • 2017-03-27 First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations referral-committee
  • 2017-04-04 Rereferred to Economic Matters
  • 2017-04-06 Favorable Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-04-06 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-04-06 Second Reading Passed
  • 2017-04-08 Third Reading Passed (138-0) passage
  • 2017-04-10 Returned Passed
  • 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93135a41-73f2-4a49-91aa-4245c11304eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).