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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due"
+description: "Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 196"
+citation: "Maryland SB 196 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-10-09"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/711264c6-2c0f-406e-acfa-9475ede450a9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0196?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "fdde927047e9a8edb4681021e723b296ab8b99823810fd1855aeda4d78c62509"
+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 196 (2025) — Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_54_sb0196t.pdf)
+2. **First - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0196f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0196t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/22 at 11:30 a.m.
+- **2025-02-17** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 54 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/711264c6-2c0f-406e-acfa-9475ede450a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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