---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance and Procurement - Small and Minority Business Participation"
description: "State Finance and Procurement - Small and Minority Business Participation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "Maryland SB 309 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Attorney General", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Fees", "Minorities", "Prices", "Procurement", "Small Business"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Hershey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6713c6e-9d08-41e4-b8cb-d61173cab5ff"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB309&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c5780080c2b4ed6063a5719d4ed1e7cf83628e0726039fa61f70ac53dddf5341"
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 309 (2017) — State Finance and Procurement - Small and Minority Business Participation

## 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/sb/sb0309f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **129–6** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) and Hershey — primary (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {816581/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Floor Amendment {333526/1 (Delegate Rosenberg) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (129-6) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2017-04-10** Senators Pinsky, Robinson, and Waugh
- **2017-04-10** House Refuses to Recede
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2017-04-10** Delegates Barron, Platt, and Metzgar
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6713c6e-9d08-41e4-b8cb-d61173cab5ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).