1999 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 744

CHAPTER NUMBER: 266 File Code: State Debt (Bond Bills) Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 524
Sponsored By:
Delegates Franchot and Hixson
Entitled:
Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Baltimore and Ohio Train Station in Silver Spring

Synopsis:

Creating a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, with a matching fund requirement, as a grant to the Board of Directors of Montgomery Preservation, Inc. for the planning, design, repair, reconstruction, restoration, and capital equipping of the Baltimore and Ohio Train Station in Silver Spring, for use as a historical site, a museum, a visitors center, and temporary working train station for the MARC line; and requiring the grantee to grant and convey a certain easement to the Maryland Historical Trust.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/12
First Reading Appropriations
2/24
Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
3/30

Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
3/29
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/30
Third Reading Passed (133-2)
4/10
Return Passed
4/27
Signed by the Governor Chapter 266
Senate Action
4/1
First Reading Budget and Taxation
4/12
Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
4/10
Favorable Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed
Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Middleton) Adopted
Third Reading Passed (47-0)
Sponsored by:
Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
HISTORICAL MATTERS
MASS TRANSIT -see also- BUSES; RAILROADS
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MUSEUMS
RAILROADS
STATE BONDS

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
House
Number: 634350/1 (PDF)     Offered on: March 31, 1999   at: 10:43 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
March 30, 1999: Third Reading Passed (133-2)
Senate
April 10, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)