---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement – Veteran–Owned Small Business Enterprise Participation"
description: "Procurement – Veteran–Owned Small Business Enterprise Participation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1165"
citation: "Maryland SB 1165 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Commerce and Business", "Minorities", "Procurement", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waugh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56fad1e1-596e-493b-9221-d6692ba91b16"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1165&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0a7f6533ab39973650ae5844604864a19dc62431ff6a460d60fe2936284008e1"
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 1165 (2018) — Procurement – Veteran–Owned Small Business Enterprise 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb1165f.pdf)

## Votes

- ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable adp - ON 2ND RDG — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-19** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-02-26** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Special Order until next session (Delegate Bromwell) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (Delegate Kipke) Adopted (138-0)
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 740 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56fad1e1-596e-493b-9221-d6692ba91b16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).