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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)"
+description: "Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 284"
+citation: "Maryland HB 284 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Certifications", "Contracts", "Evidence", "Federal Government", "General Services", "Department of", "Interstate Affairs", "Minors", "Procurement", "Public Works", "Board of", "Records", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "State Universities and Colleges", "Transportation", "Department of"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Lewis"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-25"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0a8c8f0-72d2-44b9-8657-d4fbad9437f1"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB284&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "3000416192a7049b887e052690a89be1a79ac3fa7fb28e5ec244e1a66c28c647"
+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 284 (2019) — Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0284f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-30** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {296585/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-14** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {344631/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0a8c8f0-72d2-44b9-8657-d4fbad9437f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+