---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams"
description: "Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 717"
citation: "Maryland HB 717 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edelson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49f7dcf4-48f0-41f6-995a-949b276a27f5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0717?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "cc0b4070141ed3defcddd7472bdac009d80f0e1e0ca807015a2b8f7b1b32c8f4"
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 717 (2026) — Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_483_hb0717t.pdf)
2. **First - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0717f.pdf)
3. **Third - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0717t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edelson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-23** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-10** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2026-04-10** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2026-04-13** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2026-04-13** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2026-04-13** Senate Recede
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 483 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49f7dcf4-48f0-41f6-995a-949b276a27f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).