---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement - Qualification Based Selection - Land Surveying Services"
description: "Procurement - Qualification Based Selection - Land Surveying Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 478"
citation: "Maryland HB 478 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Communications", "Contracts", "Data", "Disclosure", "Evidence", "Fines", "General Services", "Department of", "Jurisdiction", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Prices", "Procurement", "Records", "Reports", "Salaries and Compensation", "Surveyors", "Transportation", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edbb3dd3-7449-472c-b278-16f5018daa1b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB478&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a31de5926117d302cdc9a38fe16b2ebe3dc98c4b4470043073e45015e31348a4"
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 478 (2019) — Procurement - Qualification Based Selection - Land Surveying Services

## 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/hb0478f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-03-14** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-26** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edbb3dd3-7449-472c-b278-16f5018daa1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).