---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement"
description: "State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 328"
citation: "Maryland HB 328 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Attar", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Embry", "Fair", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Healey", "Henson", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Simpson", "Stein", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Terrasa", "White", "Williams", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bf5c903-de4b-49f1-9455-2527a6d90d95"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0328?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "10a9dbd17de3bbcc2cbf997a860f60b20b9f500608b4bec1325fc35ada4d16c9"
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 328 (2023) — State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_155_hb0328t.pdf)
2. **First - State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0328f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Finance and Procurement - Grants - Prompt Payment Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0328t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bf5c903-de4b-49f1-9455-2527a6d90d95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).