republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-446.md

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Bill	Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program	Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 446	Maryland HB 446 (2025)	bill		enacted	Addison Beauchamp Behler Boyce Ciliberti Davis Foley Hartman Hutchinson J. Long Jacobs Otto Ruth T. Morgan Ziegler	3	12	1	2025-01-16	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/af6728dd-3856-4134-bb6b-ab7fec47c19c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0446?ys=2025RS&search=True	eb18e45bf5aa788123d77c4822cbb8cc16139f2253903e6108cc88cf0861c1ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. First - Commercial Blue and Flathead Catfish Finfish Trotline License - Prohibited Regulations (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/af6728dd-3856-4134-bb6b-ab7fec47c19c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).