---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund"
description: "Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "Maryland SB 556 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salling"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1838cb3-e55a-4de5-bc0b-73fa475ca830"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0556?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a8c553c2b4a1162ab372bb4b0859b5931c1ac5848c471943252e8fcacd216117"
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 556 (2024) — Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_654_sb0556t.pdf)
2. **First - Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund and Contract Modification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0556f.pdf)
3. **Third - Procurement – Construction Contingency Fund and Contract Modification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0556t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/07 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-27** Hearing 3/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 654 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1838cb3-e55a-4de5-bc0b-73fa475ca830`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).