---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot"
description: "Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 819"
citation: "Maryland HB 819 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Edelson", "Embry", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac95f9a8-ca71-49e5-a4c3-3bfc375b30d0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0819?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c146343b8945369df6de3ab53e4aea42e352d4b3fe6708152078c9a9e874b684"
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 819 (2025) — Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_737_hb0819e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0819e.pdf)
3. **First - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0819f.pdf)
4. **Third - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0819t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **128–8** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **137–3** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 737 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac95f9a8-ca71-49e5-a4c3-3bfc375b30d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).