---
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: "SB 538"
citation: "Maryland SB 538 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40a80461-bbb7-4f9a-a8c1-749854540d2e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0538?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "aa5111228f0fce1a2e808e5d2c48f45801d290a8defe98c164aaf219d82d335a"
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 SB 538 (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_484_sb0538e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0538e.pdf)
3. **First - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0538f.pdf)
4. **Third - Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With Professional Baseball and Football Teams** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0538t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-26** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-27** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-27** Motion Special Order until 3/4 (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2026-03-04** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-04** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2026-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Motion Special Order until 3/5 (Senator Hayes) Adopted
- **2026-03-05** Motion Special Order until after Third Reading calendar (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2026-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-16** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2026-03-25** Hearing 3/25 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2026-04-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40a80461-bbb7-4f9a-a8c1-749854540d2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).