---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Procurement - Purchasing - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments and Aggregate"
description: "State Procurement - Purchasing - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments and Aggregate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 586"
citation: "Maryland HB 586 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Stein", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55af9c02-11c5-48e0-ad74-de787e808eba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0586?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "aa28f657a8089b1cee8315ec23c5fb294b178761c2fefe4903b020ca620e259b"
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 586 (2023) — State Procurement - Purchasing - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments and Aggregate

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Procurement - Purchasing - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments and Aggregate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_170_hb0586t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement - Purchasing Preferences - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0586f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Procurement - Purchasing - Compost, Mulch, and Soil Amendments and Aggregate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0586t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-16** 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 170 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55af9c02-11c5-48e0-ad74-de787e808eba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).