---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations"
description: "Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 302"
citation: "Maryland SB 302 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac37cba9-2b5a-488e-b7b1-0425705951ad"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0302?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "413e1298ca6ce38c2a5d5a97fa171607abe2888473816ac619aae43d06babfba"
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 302 (2025) — Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_201_sb0302t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0302f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0302t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 201 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac37cba9-2b5a-488e-b7b1-0425705951ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).