---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Gaming - Civil Offense"
description: "Criminal Law - Gaming - Civil Offense"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 842"
citation: "Maryland SB 842 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Citations", "Civil Actions", "Court Costs", "Crimes and Punishments", "District Courts", "Evidence", "Fines", "Forms", "Gaming", "Judges", "Penalties and Sentences", "State's Attorneys", "Trials", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8142f30-f701-49e6-9c27-3986c64e20c4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB842&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "4e70c16d73fb8d2bd4b920c888124d5a7e5cc0e57f07b276bab9786a073e4f99"
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 842 (2019) — Criminal Law - Gaming - Civil Offense

## 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/sb0842f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–4** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/12 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (41-4) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Ways and Means and Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {555762/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2019-04-01** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2019-04-01** Senators Hough, Ready, and Carter
- **2019-04-03** Motion Recede (Delegate Walker) Adopted
- **2019-04-03** House Recede
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8142f30-f701-49e6-9c27-3986c64e20c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).