---
type: "Bill"
title: "Video Lottery Terminals - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Transfer of Authority"
description: "Video Lottery Terminals - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Transfer of Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 498"
citation: "Maryland SB 498 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Commerce", "Department of", "Gaming", "Lottery", "Minorities", "Public Works", "Board of", "Small Business", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/845bf914-1de7-4aa7-88f0-7ea9e37e6cd2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB498&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "79ccbfdceda21a5c5cf4bcc989627effaed7faa2fe4528b2bc21b6adf1d4b26d"
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 498 (2017) — Video Lottery Terminals - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Transfer of Authority

## 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/sb0498f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Budget and Taxation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Commerce) — 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 to Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** 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 {229332/1 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.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/845bf914-1de7-4aa7-88f0-7ea9e37e6cd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).