---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy Performance Contracts – Duration"
description: "Energy Performance Contracts – Duration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Maryland SB 179 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-09-30"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d5fc5a5-95e4-46d7-a3c1-a531e7a3c841"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0179?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3f38c238adca91c062047361351051f0eb187db009f7319c0ef3e1e71972e0e5"
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 179 (2022) — Energy Performance Contracts – Duration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Energy Performance Contracts – Duration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_247_sb0179t.pdf)
2. **First - Energy Performance Contracts – Duration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0179f.pdf)
3. **Third - Energy Performance Contracts – Duration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0179t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-07** Hearing 1/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-01-31** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-02-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-07** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d5fc5a5-95e4-46d7-a3c1-a531e7a3c841`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).