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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements"
+description: "County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 291"
+citation: "Maryland HB 291 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Palakovich Carr"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-12"
+last_action: "2024-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49ccfcf8-c2e2-4267-9091-356d99228b5e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0291?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "98709487c470857ee0ef21cee240839f5b0827cdc7e1b929b2f278e8b3a27139"
+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 291 (2024) — County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_274_hb0291t.pdf)
+2. **First - County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0291f.pdf)
+3. **Third - County Boards of Education - Bid Advertisement Threshold and Electronic Posting of Hearing Notices and Bid Advertisements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0291t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-12** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-14** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-02-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-02-16** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49ccfcf8-c2e2-4267-9091-356d99228b5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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