---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration"
description: "Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 497"
citation: "Maryland HB 497 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyce", "D. Jones", "Hornberger", "Lehman", "Ruth"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/187002ea-e737-4559-a04b-0fe48af96c11"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0497?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0f589fe128945db824ad9bffa2cdced14607609489cf4c5e68cbd5fd810202fe"
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 497 (2024) — Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_592_hb0497t.pdf)
2. **First - Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0497f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hunting - Nonresident Sika Deer Stamp - Fee Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0497t.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment Mautz /253320/1 — **14–31** (fail) · upper
- On third reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **97–41** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyce — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-15** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-15** Hearing 2/16 at 12:30 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 592 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/187002ea-e737-4559-a04b-0fe48af96c11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).