Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/md/2020/hb-521.md

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment"
+description: "Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 521"
+citation: "Maryland HB 521 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boteler", "Boyce", "Buckel", "C. Branch", "Cain", "Cardin", "D. Barnes", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Guyton", "Hartman", "Hettleman", "Hornberger", "Ivey", "Kaiser", "Lierman", "Lisanti", "Long", "Luedtke", "McComas", "Mosby", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Qi", "R. Lewis", "Rose", "Shoemaker", "Smith", "Solomon", "Valderrama", "Washington", "Wilkins"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-27"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/438390c6-a7e9-44f6-832f-0d95e6c46bff"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0521?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "24a2cc3128c5f5f40603604bee59624137083d044f5783b09e9d8565ec03b5a9"
+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 521 (2020) — Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_231_hb0521t.pdf)
+2. **First - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0521f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0521t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boteler — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- C. Branch — primary (person)
+- Cain — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- D. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Ivey — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Lierman — primary (person)
+- Lisanti — primary (person)
+- Long — primary (person)
+- Luedtke — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Mosby — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Qi — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Shoemaker — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- Washington — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-27** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-13** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 231 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/438390c6-a7e9-44f6-832f-0d95e6c46bff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+