---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations"
description: "Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Maryland HB 40 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-12"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af2b3a16-936f-4dcd-9d21-d27c9d8228dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0040?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "93bb030c6feaa89ca532908367071df7177bcac8365d85ff19f6825f7fd1f2a4"
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 40 (2025) — Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_45_hb0040t.pdf)
2. **First - Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0040f.pdf)
3. **Third - Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0040t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **96–40** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Environment and Transportation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/29 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-01-13** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-13** Hearing 1/29 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 45 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af2b3a16-936f-4dcd-9d21-d27c9d8228dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).