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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct"
+description: "Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 648"
+citation: "Maryland SB 648 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-29"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1226bc24-2180-4c86-b531-f1dbe7f9e636"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0648?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "95f48d7f0330e5c0fc8876fd92c2675f7e601e0ce2fc5643f2bd6a475206f0f0"
+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 SB 648 (2024) — Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_639_sb0648t.pdf)
+2. **First - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0648f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0648t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **102–33** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-29** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-02-09** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/16 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1226bc24-2180-4c86-b531-f1dbe7f9e636`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+