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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: "SB 251"
+citation: "Maryland SB 251 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Assessments", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Damages", "Minorities", "Public Works", "Board of", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509bb4e0-bbe6-4cbb-8c63-aaf4d58925dd"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "a290eca871c3ae3851142eb0a989a7816b2b51724418dbd72dfc91d1b2e33260"
+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 SB 251 (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/sb/sb0251f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Conway — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/509bb4e0-bbe6-4cbb-8c63-aaf4d58925dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+