---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oyster Poaching - Administrative Penalties"
description: "Oyster Poaching - Administrative Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1172"
citation: "Maryland HB 1172 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hunting and Fishing", "Administrative Agencies", "Citations", "Committees and Commissions", "Fish and Fishing", "Hearings", "Licenses", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Oysters", "Penalties and Sentences", "Reports", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacobs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6d6a819-3e67-4816-ba60-d8b8fa1f12cb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1172&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "f25ad677de9b5f1c8866a96b2841096aa412dd11badf7462a68fa134fc60238a"
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 HB 1172 (2018) — Oyster Poaching - Administrative Penalties

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1172f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {720318/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {964131/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-04** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2018-04-04** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-04** Delegates Stein, Jacobs, and Gilchrist
- **2018-04-06** Motion Recede (Senator Conway) Adopted
- **2018-04-06** Committee Amendment {964131/1 Withdrawn
- **2018-04-06** Senate Recede
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6d6a819-3e67-4816-ba60-d8b8fa1f12cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).