---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold"
description: "St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 490"
citation: "Maryland HB 490 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4e77681-e4cc-403d-bc57-86cc140a5207"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0490?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7b934ba9d37aee9830f6c718a07efb27360986869c6fc06cbd76ca329832bdee"
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 490 (2025) — St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_781_hb0490t.pdf)
2. **First - St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0490f.pdf)
3. **Third - St. Mary's County - Competitive Bidding - Threshold** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0490t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4e77681-e4cc-403d-bc57-86cc140a5207`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).