---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program"
description: "Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 446"
citation: "Maryland HB 446 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Beauchamp", "Behler", "Boyce", "Ciliberti", "Davis", "Foley", "Hartman", "Hutchinson", "J. Long", "Jacobs", "Otto", "Ruth", "T. Morgan", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af6728dd-3856-4134-bb6b-ab7fec47c19c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0446?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eb18e45bf5aa788123d77c4822cbb8cc16139f2253903e6108cc88cf0861c1ec"
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 446 (2025) — Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_172_hb0446t.pdf)
2. **First - Commercial Blue and Flathead Catfish Finfish Trotline License - Prohibited Regulations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0446f.pdf)
3. **Third - Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0446t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Addison — primary (person)
- Beauchamp — primary (person)
- Behler — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Ciliberti — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af6728dd-3856-4134-bb6b-ab7fec47c19c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).