---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees"
description: "State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 292"
citation: "Maryland HB 292 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a7f53ac-4e6d-4755-9beb-45d205a1640f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0292?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "49a8f2684e13309b3ee1101e99ac3bd9c51bb6dd26a7181d5ae504529e5dc328"
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 292 (2024) — State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_820_hb0292t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0292f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Procurement - Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals - Attorney's Fees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0292t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 820 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a7f53ac-4e6d-4755-9beb-45d205a1640f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).