---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation"
description: "Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1543"
citation: "Maryland HB 1543 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/395eeb59-2bd8-4af4-a3bc-f753e1462f38"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1543?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2a3d9732bd26d6035e9604958d1f3f76578fb4806fc75b17127eb4aa70d2e6fe"
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 1543 (2025) — Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_333_hb1543t.pdf)
2. **First - Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1543f.pdf)
3. **Third - Gaming - Sports Wagering Facilities - Request for Relocation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1543t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-03** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2025-03-06** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/395eeb59-2bd8-4af4-a3bc-f753e1462f38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).