---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)"
description: "State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 30"
citation: "Maryland SB 30 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth", "Guzzone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-18"
last_action: "2021-12-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c64c02f-9341-4781-8955-f8e76af1ed89"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0030?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "da4995db9a52150c9ffed4b898496d4ff24c8a529eb633e3fe49be0d99a015bd"
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 30 (2021) — State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_2_sb0030t.pdf)
2. **First - State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0030f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Finance and Procurement - Appropriation Reductions (Board of Public Works Budget Reduction Clarification Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0030t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **105–31** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-09-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-12-22** Hearing 1/21 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2021-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-28** Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) `executive-veto`
- **2021-12-06** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-06** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-06** Became law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 2 of 2021 Special Session `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c64c02f-9341-4781-8955-f8e76af1ed89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).