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Bill	Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Sports and Event Wagering Referendum and Minority Business Enterprise Disparity Study	Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Sports and Event Wagering Referendum and Minority Business Enterprise Disparity Study	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	SB 4	Maryland SB 4 (2020)	bill		enacted	Beidle Guzzone King McCray Miller West Zucker	4	21	4	2020-01-08	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/296fd29d-485f-4a63-8f54-a891abc4e31e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0004?ys=2020RS&search=True	451d78f3f7c92f6c3a878fb07bae1e1cda8186d45e78ee169b685bb75d0c1b7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 4 (2020) — Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Sports and Event Wagering Referendum and Minority Business Enterprise Disparity Study

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Sports and Event Wagering Referendum and Minority Business Enterprise Disparity Study (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Sports and Event Wagering Referendum and Minority Business Enterprise Disparity Study (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Gaming - Sports Betting - Implementation (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Gaming - Sports Betting - Implementation (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day — 125–2 (pass) · lower
• On third reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) (Amend) — 129–3 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beidle — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• McCray — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 First Reading Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-05 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-05 Motion Laid Over (Senator Jennings) Adopted
• 2020-03-06 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-06 Floor Amendment {
• 2020-03-06 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-10 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-10 Referred Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2020-03-10 Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-16 Hearing canceled
• 2020-03-17 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-17 Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Patterson) Adopted
• 2020-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Senate Concurs House Amendments
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Passed Enrolled
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 492 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/296fd29d-485f-4a63-8f54-a891abc4e31e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).