---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hunting and Fishing Licenses - Active Military, Former Prisoners of War, Recipients of the Purple Heart Award, and Disabled Veterans"
description: "Hunting and Fishing Licenses - Active Military, Former Prisoners of War, Recipients of the Purple Heart Award, and Disabled Veterans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Maryland SB 46 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hunting and Fishing", "Armed Forces", "Disabilities", "Fish and Fishing", "Hunting", "Licenses", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Reports", "Residency", "Sunset", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-08-04"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/328c4f05-f244-4b9c-8abb-b19674ffb797"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB46&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "04ed6a95aacadfb6b3e35c9baaad465c6981aab1997465c54f8380146afe3dd2"
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 46 (2017) — Hunting and Fishing Licenses - Active Military, Former Prisoners of War, Recipients of the Purple Heart Award, and Disabled Veterans

## 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/sb0046f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-08-04** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-04** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-27** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-01** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-02** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {910512/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/328c4f05-f244-4b9c-8abb-b19674ffb797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).