---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horse Racing – Interstate Compact on Anti–Doping and Drug Testing Standards"
description: "Horse Racing – Interstate Compact on Anti–Doping and Drug Testing Standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1177"
citation: "Maryland HB 1177 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horse Racing", "Animals", "Chemical Tests", "Committees and Commissions", "Drugs", "Racing", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser and Turner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0be7ef3d-7502-4c0e-a3ab-3fc8228185f0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1177&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c1b447fba1f1b15fb4bf19ec9889bc89eb8596d6eeb1120e9324109cd4e4a2c0"
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 1177 (2018) — Horse Racing – Interstate Compact on Anti–Doping and Drug Testing Standards

## 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/hb1177f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kaiser and Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0be7ef3d-7502-4c0e-a3ab-3fc8228185f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).