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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers"
+description: "State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 342"
+citation: "Maryland HB 342 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-17"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/600aa9b7-8771-4d09-8d68-7dbbe8bf7cc6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0342?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "c729c6bc614b6f1e25741252a05ebb8d54b1e2dfe6e07573132ca3dcceee2025"
+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 342 (2024) — State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_31_hb0342t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0342f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0342t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-17** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Hearing 1/30 at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 31 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/600aa9b7-8771-4d09-8d68-7dbbe8bf7cc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+