---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study"
description: "Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Maryland HB 577 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Office of the Comptroller", "Speaker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e64aed5-6942-40f6-b250-1c55b87699d1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0577?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4f73e4db76bb7447a290b845ee629e770be48b2676c1ec79778991e00b5445f7"
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 577 (2025) — Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_633_hb0577t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation - Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Enforcement and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0577f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0577t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **39–8** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **102–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Office of the Comptroller — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e64aed5-6942-40f6-b250-1c55b87699d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).