---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program - Goals and Outreach Program"
description: "State Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program - Goals and Outreach Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 962"
citation: "Maryland HB 962 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "J. Long", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pasteur", "Pena-Melnyk", "Phillips", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Wilkins", "Williams", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f54c5c0f-cf19-4825-9bd8-b20d47457ea3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0962?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "17e31bcc2dcba4200003f3c779e5c46301cf11ed38e33284b9f94b5189943ea0"
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 962 (2024) — State Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program - Goals and Outreach Program

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program - Goals and Outreach Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_583_hb0962t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement - Small and Minority Business Reserve Program (Parren J. Mitchell MBE Prime Contracting Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0962f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program - Goals and Outreach Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0962t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Kaiser — 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)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f54c5c0f-cf19-4825-9bd8-b20d47457ea3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).