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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties"
+description: "State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 587"
+citation: "Maryland HB 587 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Procurement", "Small Business", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Reznik"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e77858a-eac1-452c-9d2d-ff2c44bebffe"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB587&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "200ca9992c2d1a227559afa55553fb38605c77182d5c191f94e7acfbc0171a6b"
+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 587 (2017) — State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties
+
+## 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/hb0587f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Reznik — primary (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-22** Favorable with Amendments {476588/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2017-02-27** 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 {544430/1 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 (135-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e77858a-eac1-452c-9d2d-ff2c44bebffe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+