---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations"
description: "Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 719"
citation: "Maryland HB 719 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40c3cd40-fc1c-4ab5-9b6b-65faa37cd602"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0719?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b2a66c3d7f351ee6bd26e7186acf9d73891e03f0cf3f94de237cfdb900b2931b"
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 719 (2025) — Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_433_hb0719t.pdf)
2. **First - Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0719f.pdf)
3. **Third - Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0719t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **100–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Environment and Transportation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40c3cd40-fc1c-4ab5-9b6b-65faa37cd602`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).