---
type: "Bill"
title: "Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal"
description: "Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 537"
citation: "Maryland SB 537 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14456375-7e9d-491c-beb4-704a5a076ba7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0537?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "83474746e63aa8a5b6bcbbf4637fefdda41811191d641a932855fae3a0057a29"
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 537 (2023) — Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_736_sb0537e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0537e.pdf)
3. **First - Gaming - Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0537f.pdf)
4. **Third - Gaming - Video Lottery Operation License - Renewal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0537t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, King and Salling)
- **2023-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, King and Salling)
- **2023-04-08** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-08** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Atterbeary, Hartman and Patterson)
- **2023-04-10** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-10** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Atterbeary, Hartman and Patterson)
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14456375-7e9d-491c-beb4-704a5a076ba7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).