---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements"
description: "Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 512"
citation: "Maryland HB 512 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyce", "Jacobs", "T. Morgan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d76156d3-37ff-4d50-92e5-7efc644fd2b0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0512?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ea44b718d8e3a68ad09c103e509cf5a0c0a0fed441becb4b2c53830daf537295"
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 512 (2024) — Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_519_hb0512t.pdf)
2. **First - Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0512f.pdf)
3. **Third - Natural Resources - Fish and Fisheries - Reporting Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0512t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boyce — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-15** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-15** Hearing 2/16 at 12:30 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d76156d3-37ff-4d50-92e5-7efc644fd2b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).