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Bill	Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization	Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 857	Maryland HB 857 (2025)	bill		enacted	Allen Arentz Arikan Beauchamp Behler Boyce Chisholm Grammer Griffith Hornberger Hutchinson J. Long Jacobs Nawrocki Otto Pippy Schmidt Stewart Szeliga T. Morgan Valentine Ziegler	3	13	2	2025-01-30	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/f6bc9d4a-9b8e-4d25-85ce-3a1c5e648582	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0857?ys=2025RS&search=True	cd861082e0abba5725a4be42bfd8ddc3ae0abe5081ed141ddc10a006698a60df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 857 (2025) — Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours - Authorization (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 131–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Arentz — primary (person)
• Arikan — primary (person)
• Beauchamp — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Grammer — primary (person)
• Griffith — primary (person)
• Hornberger — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• J. Long — primary (person)
• Jacobs — primary (person)
• Nawrocki — primary (person)
• Otto — primary (person)
• Pippy — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• T. Morgan — primary (person)
• Valentine — primary (person)
• Ziegler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Hearing 2/19 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
• 2025-04-05 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-05 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6bc9d4a-9b8e-4d25-85ce-3a1c5e648582. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).