---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)"
description: "Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 284"
citation: "Maryland HB 284 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Certifications", "Contracts", "Evidence", "Federal Government", "General Services", "Department of", "Interstate Affairs", "Minors", "Procurement", "Public Works", "Board of", "Records", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "State Universities and Colleges", "Transportation", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Lewis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0a8c8f0-72d2-44b9-8657-d4fbad9437f1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB284&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3000416192a7049b887e052690a89be1a79ac3fa7fb28e5ec244e1a66c28c647"
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 284 (2019) — Procurement – Small Businesses and Minority Businesses – Qualification and Certification (Small and Minority Business Certification Streamlining Act of 2019)

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0284f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {296585/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {344631/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0a8c8f0-72d2-44b9-8657-d4fbad9437f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).