---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition"
description: "Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 251"
citation: "Maryland SB 251 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Assessments", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Damages", "Minorities", "Public Works", "Board of", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509bb4e0-bbe6-4cbb-8c63-aaf4d58925dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a290eca871c3ae3851142eb0a989a7816b2b51724418dbd72dfc91d1b2e33260"
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 251 (2018) — Minority Business Enterprises - Required Regulations - Liquidated Damages Prohibition

## 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/sb0251f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/509bb4e0-bbe6-4cbb-8c63-aaf4d58925dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).