---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties"
description: "State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 587"
citation: "Maryland HB 587 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Procurement", "Small Business", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reznik"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e77858a-eac1-452c-9d2d-ff2c44bebffe"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB587&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "200ca9992c2d1a227559afa55553fb38605c77182d5c191f94e7acfbc0171a6b"
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 587 (2017) — State Finance and Procurement - Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises - Definitions and Penalties

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0587f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Reznik — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Favorable with Amendments {476588/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {544430/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e77858a-eac1-452c-9d2d-ff2c44bebffe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).