---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers"
description: "State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 461"
citation: "Maryland SB 461 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-27"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ca2d751-2d62-404c-888f-5ff241b32a9f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0461?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3d0d37240199980aa8f4f95ef2440d1dbf9b5752a296cbb5bd332c4959321d1c"
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 461 (2022) — State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_528_sb0461t.pdf)
2. **First - State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0461f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Finance and Procurement - Procedures and Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0461t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Griffith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Motion Special Order until 3/9 (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2022-03-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/22 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2022-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2022-04-11** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2022-04-11** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2022-04-11** Motion Recede (Delegate Pendergrass) Adopted
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** House Recede
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 528 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ca2d751-2d62-404c-888f-5ff241b32a9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).