---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions"
description: "State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 453"
citation: "Maryland SB 453 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1cbfe8-fcac-4da1-b581-a2e2a148df44"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0453?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dd9c1ee75e5d263d94c59f31b3dd46d4f6f1214d2e102e14da272cb9f08e4f2d"
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 453 (2025) — State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_723_sb0453t.pdf)
2. **First - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0453f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0453t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-30** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/05 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/25 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
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae1cbfe8-fcac-4da1-b581-a2e2a148df44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).