---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations"
description: "St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 486"
citation: "Maryland HB 486 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26613490-58c1-40f6-9ebc-cd713335e084"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0486?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e45ef690e54006e32bed402754868cde7924d07dd3e7b785a36f7db23706623e"
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 486 (2025) — St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_787_hb0486t.pdf)
2. **First - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0486f.pdf)
3. **Third - St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Civil Penalty for Sales Violations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0486t.pdf)

## 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 787 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26613490-58c1-40f6-9ebc-cd713335e084`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).