---
type: "Bill"
title: "Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting"
description: "Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 685"
citation: "Maryland HB 685 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "State Government - Procurement", "Commerce and Business", "Data", "Gaming", "Licenses", "Lottery and Gaming Control Agency", "State", "Lottery", "Minorities", "Records", "Reports", "Small Business", "Time", "Video"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3586d54-e9bf-42e9-93d0-f81d97b01cc2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB685&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "957bcb5bcff470f2ab5179dec2659d75b0bcdbde0b5b61cb1ef00df7adfb35c4"
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 685 (2019) — Video Lottery Terminals - Minority Business Participation Goals - Enforcement and Reporting

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0685f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wilson — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Floor Committee Amendment {645061/1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3586d54-e9bf-42e9-93d0-f81d97b01cc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).