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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Competitive Sealed Proposals - Security Contracts"
+description: "Competitive Sealed Proposals - Security Contracts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 780"
+citation: "Maryland HB 780 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Embry", "Guzzone", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-31"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da7bd21f-a2a4-425e-828f-325555e70590"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0780?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "dc2fa7fa4350fe9edc31928831b45cbc7a980bea15d340ef2e3ce31e4573effa"
+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 780 (2024) — Competitive Sealed Proposals - Security Contracts
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Competitive Sealed Proposals - Security Contracts** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_612_hb0780t.pdf)
+2. **First - Competitive Sealed Proposals - Private Security Contracts** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0780f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Competitive Sealed Proposals - Security Contracts** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0780t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Embry — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — 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)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-21** Hearing 3/26 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da7bd21f-a2a4-425e-828f-325555e70590`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+