---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gaming - Video Lottery Terminals - Transfer of Ownership and Local Impact Grants"
description: "Gaming - Video Lottery Terminals - Transfer of Ownership and Local Impact Grants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 495"
citation: "Maryland SB 495 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "Allegany County", "Equipment", "Gaming", "Grants", "Leases and Rent", "Licenses", "Lottery", "Records", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Time", "Video", "Worcester County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffcc5cfb-5ac6-4a5b-b9d4-760e1e7cd299"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB495&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "40b629b805f3e716cd2a50d58b96a76456ea5587f5e1858c6fe3bb7faac869e8"
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 495 (2017) — Gaming - Video Lottery Terminals - Transfer of Ownership and Local Impact Grants

## 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/sb0495f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Budget and Taxation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Lottery and Gaming Control Agency) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Motion Rules Suspended Rule 32 (Senator Klausmeier) Adopted
- **2017-01-30** Re-Referred Budget and Taxation
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-09** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-09** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-16** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-16** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {139139/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffcc5cfb-5ac6-4a5b-b9d4-760e1e7cd299`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).