---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct"
description: "Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 648"
citation: "Maryland SB 648 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1226bc24-2180-4c86-b531-f1dbe7f9e636"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0648?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "95f48d7f0330e5c0fc8876fd92c2675f7e601e0ce2fc5643f2bd6a475206f0f0"
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 648 (2024) — Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_639_sb0648t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0648f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation - Contractors, Subcontractors, and Brokers - Prohibited Conduct** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0648t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **102–33** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-09** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/16 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1226bc24-2180-4c86-b531-f1dbe7f9e636`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).