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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement"
+description: "Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 426"
+citation: "Maryland HB 426 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Administrative Agencies", "Community Colleges", "Construction", "Contracts", "Electronic Government", "General Services", "Department of", "Higher Education Commission", "Notices", "Prices", "Procurement", "Public Works", "Board of", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Solicitation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Cassilly"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-26"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cb86498-2e0f-414a-9092-eb0ecee5d6cd"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB426&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "dabbc02043f96030e8a812f2b493df7baf96132c4d32214064fa95f2139a9925"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 426 (2017) — Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0426f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Cassilly — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {496682/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {554937/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 589 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cb86498-2e0f-414a-9092-eb0ecee5d6cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+