---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)"
description: "Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 444"
citation: "Maryland SB 444 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0b8cd3a-f7a6-4030-a35f-1e8c50a59510"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0444?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b5e42a848b7c12e9844ed0094e91670f8b0097a106cc9d2ad6a8c86784727377"
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 444 (2021) — Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_582_sb0444t.pdf)
2. **First - Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0444f.pdf)
3. **Third - Transforming Manufacturing in a Digital Economy Workgroup (Making It in Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0444t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **92–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Cox /293229/1 — **38–94** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **106–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-24** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-30** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-30** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2021-03-31** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2021-03-31** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Feldman, Klausmeier and Hershey)
- **2021-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2021-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2021-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Feldman, Klausmeier and Hershey)
- **2021-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate D.E. Davis) Adopted
- **2021-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-08** House Recede
- **2021-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 582 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0b8cd3a-f7a6-4030-a35f-1e8c50a59510`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).