---
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: "SB 653"
citation: "Maryland SB 653 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d4a10ae-64b8-44c1-bb06-894865c7ca3e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0653?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "73ab3fbecb2db6b10adef0197e1483874f84c53b9cebaac1ced3b7f07d6d685e"
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 653 (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_736_sb0653e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0653e.pdf)
3. **First - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0653f.pdf)
4. **Third - Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0653t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **133–6** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/19 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-14** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-14** Hearing 2/26 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/26 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Motion Special Order until 3/28 (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d4a10ae-64b8-44c1-bb06-894865c7ca3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).