---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gaming - Reconciliation of Proceeds - Licensee Payments"
description: "Gaming - Reconciliation of Proceeds - Licensee Payments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 496"
citation: "Maryland SB 496 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "Equipment", "Gaming", "Licenses", "Lottery and Gaming Control Agency", "State", "Lottery", "Rules and Regulations", "Time", "Video"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38302c02-99e2-44bb-a0ff-e633694e8d07"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB496&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "797ee548d5cb87730f92b22033e742779105a67c10b9fe658a6e468ef7b313e0"
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 496 (2017) — Gaming - Reconciliation of Proceeds - Licensee Payments

## 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/sb0496f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **118–18** (pass) · legislature
- Floor Amendment {833323/1 (Delegate Barkley) — **22–109** (fail) · legislature
- Third Reading — **114–26** (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 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {555969/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Special Order until 03/31 (Delegate Barkley) Adopted
- **2017-03-31** Floor Amendment {833323/1 (Delegate Barkley) Rejected (22-109) `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-31** Floor Amendment {843123/1 (Delegate Gutierrez) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (114-26) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2017-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate Turner) Adopted
- **2017-04-08** House Recede
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (118-18) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38302c02-99e2-44bb-a0ff-e633694e8d07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).