---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pricing and Selection Committee for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland and the Employment Works Program - Staff"
description: "Pricing and Selection Committee for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland and the Employment Works Program - Staff"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 846"
citation: "Maryland HB 846 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Blind Persons", "Committees and Commissions", "Community Facilities and Services", "General Services", "Department of", "Prices", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bromwell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ef30ac3-f9f7-4605-9a12-4bd509932290"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB846&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "cb852ff1400e2f0ddab689e116f809bf9f0db5e326b4ee76ec105d9e997dd405"
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 846 (2017) — Pricing and Selection Committee for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland and the Employment Works Program - Staff

## 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/hb0846f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bromwell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {906284/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ef30ac3-f9f7-4605-9a12-4bd509932290`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).