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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network"
+description: "Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 999"
+citation: "Maryland HB 999 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Qi", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-05"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ff238e3-9189-4070-b561-9da092a58294"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0999?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "657769c2f7430a20699f17cfc68e7c043f519c475859078ed63108cddbf49b5d"
+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 999 (2024) — Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_448_hb0999t.pdf)
+2. **First - Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0999f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0999t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Qi — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-13** Hearing 3/05 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 Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ff238e3-9189-4070-b561-9da092a58294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+