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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act"
+description: "Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 388"
+citation: "Maryland SB 388 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Charles", "Harris", "Hettleman", "King", "Lam", "Love", "President"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-27"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc64742-e392-40ce-b580-a0621e4a5484"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0388?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "be505d0a593db00c959123314ac782a5d7c6afd2a7d194264323ded8330e9bd4"
+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 388 (2026) — Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_351_sb0388e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388e.pdf)
+3. **First - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **125–10** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing canceled (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing canceled (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2026-01-30** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-24** Referred Ways and Means Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
+- **2026-04-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc64742-e392-40ce-b580-a0621e4a5484`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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