---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations"
description: "Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1487"
citation: "Maryland HB 1487 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2b5b5b4-ab92-4584-be01-1e13159f1532"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1487?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e88b7878693a8d45d7b284591bc3412094c01db47d1a5cfed7e4b8948ab7e144"
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 1487 (2024) — Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_70_hb1487t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1487f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Entertainment Council - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1487t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2024-03-05** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-12** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-12** Hearing 3/12 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-03-12** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-12** Hearing 3/12 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `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`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `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
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2b5b5b4-ab92-4584-be01-1e13159f1532`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).