---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act"
description: "Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Maryland SB 388 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Charles", "Harris", "Hettleman", "King", "Lam", "Love", "President"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-27"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc64742-e392-40ce-b580-a0621e4a5484"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0388?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "be505d0a593db00c959123314ac782a5d7c6afd2a7d194264323ded8330e9bd4"
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 388 (2026) — Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_351_sb0388e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388e.pdf)
3. **First - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388f.pdf)
4. **Third - Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0388t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **125–10** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2026-01-28** Hearing canceled (Budget and Taxation)
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2026-01-28** Hearing canceled (Budget and Taxation)
- **2026-01-30** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-24** Referred Ways and Means Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-25** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2026-04-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc64742-e392-40ce-b580-a0621e4a5484`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).