---
type: "Bill"
title: "Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement"
description: "Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "Maryland HB 426 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Administrative Agencies", "Community Colleges", "Construction", "Contracts", "Electronic Government", "General Services", "Department of", "Higher Education Commission", "Notices", "Prices", "Procurement", "Public Works", "Board of", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Solicitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Cassilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cb86498-2e0f-414a-9092-eb0ecee5d6cd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB426&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "dabbc02043f96030e8a812f2b493df7baf96132c4d32214064fa95f2139a9925"
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 HB 426 (2017) — Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0426f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Cassilly — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {496682/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {554937/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 589 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cb86498-2e0f-414a-9092-eb0ecee5d6cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).