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Bill	Natural Resources - Fisheries - Commercial Oyster Divers	Natural Resources - Fisheries - Commercial Oyster Divers	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 1137	Maryland HB 1137 (2018)	bill	Hunting and Fishing Boats and Ships Commerce and Business Equipment Fish and Fishing Licenses Oysters Time Weights and Measures	enacted	Jacobs	1	25	4	2018-02-08	2018-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5c2ac06b-15f1-40b3-a6a0-93dc3431578b	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1137&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	e258eb3b258f10a52631c0b08c941fd6b7ebe893bf9107aaa5f8e11e32fa0b94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1137 (2018) — Natural Resources - Fisheries - Commercial Oyster Divers

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On third reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — 137–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 136–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jacobs — primary (person)
• Arentz — cosponsor (person)
• Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
• Grammer — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Mautz — cosponsor (person)
• Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
• Otto — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-08 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2018-02-08 Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-12 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-14 Favorable with Amendments {950310/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-15 Third Reading Passed (136-0) passage
• 2018-03-16 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-04-04 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-05 Favorable with Amendments {864337/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-04-06 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) passage
• 2018-04-06 House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
• 2018-04-06 House Requests Senate Recede
• 2018-04-06 Conference Committee Appointed
• 2018-04-06 Delegates Stein, Jacobs, and Gilchrist
• 2018-04-09 Senate Refuses to Recede
• 2018-04-09 Conference Committee Appointed
• 2018-04-09 Senators Kagan, Young, and Waugh
• 2018-04-09 Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2018-04-09 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2018-04-09 Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2018-04-09 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2018-04-09 Passed Enrolled
• 2018-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 518 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c2ac06b-15f1-40b3-a6a0-93dc3431578b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).