republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/hb-48.md

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Bill	eSports Act	eSports Act	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	HB 48	Maryland HB 48 (2019)	bill	Gaming Awards Medals and Prizes Comptroller Gaming Rules and Regulations Sports and Recreation Telecommunications and Information Technology	enacted	Grammer	1	14	2	2019-01-11	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/155ea51f-607e-4b30-9790-e2fba833589d	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB48&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	e6ceb10b03dea63eef4d9714614e1430f5b45661e0dfa28d89e8b960192334f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 48 (2019) — eSports Act

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 — 139–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grammer — primary (person)
• Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
• Ivey — cosponsor (person)
• Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
• Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-11 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-15 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-15 Favorable with Amendments {555666/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-15 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-18 Third Reading Passed (139-0) passage
• 2019-03-18 First Reading Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-04-05 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-04-08 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2019-04-08 Returned Passed
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/155ea51f-607e-4b30-9790-e2fba833589d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).