---
type: "Bill"
title: "Video Lottery Terminals - Disposition of Unclaimed Winnings"
description: "Video Lottery Terminals - Disposition of Unclaimed Winnings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Maryland SB 228 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "Awards", "Medals and Prizes", "Education", "Equipment", "Gaming", "Grants", "Lottery", "Minorities", "Racing", "Revenue and Taxes", "Small Business", "Time", "Video", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salling"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73b53430-90d1-4b32-87c8-05a8e7ed769f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB228&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "2dc5864ea87eba166846c145f97d19a31f4b46365cce65447ea0c44da7c376c5"
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 228 (2017) — Video Lottery Terminals - Disposition of Unclaimed Winnings

## 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/sb0228f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **133–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Salling — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {609834/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (133-4) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73b53430-90d1-4b32-87c8-05a8e7ed769f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).