---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting"
description: "Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 245"
citation: "Maryland HB 245 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Acevero", "Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "D. Barnes", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Hill", "Holmes", "Hutchinson", "J. Long", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pasteur", "Pena-Melnyk", "Phillips", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Schmidt", "Simpson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Toles", "Turner", "Valderrama", "White", "Williams", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be7e457c-a01c-4112-8962-ba54610d1e2f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0245?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "51d460a267aae8d885abbef8e7f843bfe150a78710c433c3f2b2d433ca216d95"
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 HB 245 (2023) — Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_145_hb0245t.pdf)
2. **First - Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting - List of Units** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0245f.pdf)
3. **Third - Minority Business Enterprise Program - Reporting - List of Units** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0245t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Acevero — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be7e457c-a01c-4112-8962-ba54610d1e2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).