---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due"
description: "Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Maryland SB 196 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-09"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/711264c6-2c0f-406e-acfa-9475ede450a9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0196?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fdde927047e9a8edb4681021e723b296ab8b99823810fd1855aeda4d78c62509"
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 196 (2025) — Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_54_sb0196t.pdf)
2. **First - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0196f.pdf)
3. **Third - Procurement - Electronic Transactions - Clarification of Fees Due** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0196t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/22 at 11:30 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 54 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/711264c6-2c0f-406e-acfa-9475ede450a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).