---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Payment of Fees"
description: "Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Payment of Fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 113"
citation: "Maryland SB 113 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Credit", "Electronic Commerce", "Fees", "Guns", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bef09e8d-c866-477e-9bf6-1cb5a5134e4e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB113&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "eb760798d4cb435906344e0e967d03114bf795fe1667873e708799f798b0707f"
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 113 (2019) — Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Payment of Fees

## 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/sb/sb0113f.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment McCray /293228/1 — **31–15** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–3** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment Smith /993922/1 — **33–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Gallion — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/05 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Special Order until 2/21 (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2019-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-21** Floor Amendment {293228/1 (Senator McCray) Adopted (31-15) `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-25** Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2019-02-26** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2019-02-26** Floor Amendment {993922/1 (Senator Smith) Adopted (33-13) `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (44-3) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {562018/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Special Order until end of this calendar (Delegate Cardin) Adopted
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {562018/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Special Order until 04/04 (Delegate Wilson) Adopted
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 44 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bef09e8d-c866-477e-9bf6-1cb5a5134e4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).