---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)"
description: "Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 781"
citation: "Maryland SB 781 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "Feldman", "Hester"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e62452a-eec1-447d-848a-7dd85995dd0b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0781?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "91a485f514ac781738aac67ac5115ad03f91e48f042935f54fd5bf1db2d0b232"
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 781 (2023) — Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_95_sb0781e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0781e.pdf)
3. **First - Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0781f.pdf)
4. **Third - Offshore Wind Energy - State Goals and Procurement (Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0781t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reassigned to Education, Energy, and the Environment
- **2023-02-16** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-07** Hearing canceled
- **2023-03-07** Hearing 3/07 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Motion Laid Over (Senator Hester) Adopted
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Motion Special Order until 4/3 (Delegate Hartman) Adopted
- **2023-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-04-04** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Kaufman) Adopted
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Hester, Feldman and Gallion)
- **2023-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Hester, Feldman and Gallion)
- **2023-04-08** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-08** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Charkoudian, Crosby and Fraser-Hidalgo)
- **2023-04-10** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-10** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Charkoudian, Crosby and Fraser-Hidalgo)
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e62452a-eec1-447d-848a-7dd85995dd0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).