---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers"
description: "State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 183"
citation: "Maryland SB 183 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-28"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cfc0fd8-8375-464d-8612-02bc71fe57e0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0183?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ed5bccdbb24749d55384d6a46071ea4ba2204db5e3f5238e2d6d9186e8cfb8cb"
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 183 (2024) — State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_30_sb0183t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0183f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Procurement - Prompt Payment of Suppliers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0183t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bailey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-28** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
- **2024-01-13** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Motion Laid Over (Senator Kramer) Adopted
- **2024-02-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cfc0fd8-8375-464d-8612-02bc71fe57e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).