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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting"
+description: "Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 421"
+citation: "Maryland SB 421 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Gaming", "State Government - Procurement", "Commerce and Business", "Data", "Gaming", "Licenses", "Lottery and Gaming Control Agency", "State", "Lottery", "Minorities", "Records", "Reports", "Small Business", "Time", "Video"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-01"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb34208b-29f2-4c86-b71c-ec95795ce983"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB421&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "f373edf6a08ede86cf98492245a63a78498f9976a3582b15bd902af183fdd7af"
+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 421 (2019) — Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0421f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-01** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-06** Hearing canceled
+- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/26 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {689434/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-11** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-12** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 281 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb34208b-29f2-4c86-b71c-ec95795ce983`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+