---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties"
description: "Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 893"
citation: "Maryland HB 893 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Arentz", "Arikan", "Boyce", "Chisholm", "Ghrist", "Grammer", "Hutchinson", "Jacobs", "Nawrocki", "Otto", "Schmidt", "T. Morgan", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21958e7e-b916-4fcd-bf8a-e59893d84fd5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0893?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "483b95cd3999f0bf5ea93c88b63d4192ab13f790843db5ffbd38f005ccf7c6e3"
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 893 (2025) — Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_552_hb0893t.pdf)
2. **First - Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0893f.pdf)
3. **Third - Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0893t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adams — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Arikan — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** 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`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21958e7e-b916-4fcd-bf8a-e59893d84fd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).