---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities"
description: "Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 452"
citation: "Maryland SB 452 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e5b20dd-10b1-44d8-9f15-bb87b24583c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0452?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8acb9bb46902c73acc3819e15f1e7d48fb577ab8d3c211d46c2259e0c846a962"
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 452 (2024) — Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_941_sb0452t.pdf)
2. **First - Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0452f.pdf)
3. **Third - Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0452t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **106–29** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **110–26** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Griffith /713721/1 — **34–98** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Hartman /263425/1 — **33–105** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-27** Hearing 3/27 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-04-03** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Kaufman) Adopted
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-05** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-05** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Carter, Charles and West)
- **2024-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Carter, Charles and West)
- **2024-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 941 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e5b20dd-10b1-44d8-9f15-bb87b24583c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).