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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition"
+description: "Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 858"
+citation: "Maryland HB 858 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Assessments", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Damages", "Minorities", "Public Works", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["West and Hill"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a244a4a7-0d80-4c5c-bec1-d2bf8d0f85b5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB858&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "45cb7efddf175bd9de64ea0a7e842a89ef82fbab945716b4e863d57bc2716360"
+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 858 (2018) — Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0858f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- West and Hill — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-02** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-05** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a244a4a7-0d80-4c5c-bec1-d2bf8d0f85b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+