---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing"
description: "Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 437"
citation: "Maryland SB 437 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carroll County Senators"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afa41fe2-6935-4f37-99f8-97bcf600199f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0437?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bcbe01e707c55cabed078b34ffdf4e13760780e57914592e0dd4c24b39f0b39e"
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 437 (2024) — Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_686_sb0437t.pdf)
2. **First - Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0437f.pdf)
3. **Third - Carroll County - Contracts and Purchasing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0437t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carroll County Senators — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afa41fe2-6935-4f37-99f8-97bcf600199f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).