---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota"
description: "St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 476"
citation: "Maryland HB 476 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9271179f-ecaa-4dc5-9941-c11836ee4745"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0476?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "963a52df852c059f2931faaeae7cabcad7ee9fb7f8c0422b2d233184d996af0d"
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 476 (2025) — St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_801_hb0476t.pdf)
2. **First - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0476f.pdf)
3. **Third - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class A License Quota** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0476t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 476 HB 486 HB 571 HB 574 HB 715 HB 746 HB 987 HB 1108 HB 1145 HB 1238 HB 1281 — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 476 HB 486 HB 512 HB 515 HB 1229 HB 1281 — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 801 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9271179f-ecaa-4dc5-9941-c11836ee4745`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).