---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations"
description: "Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 215"
citation: "Maryland SB 215 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-11"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec723a79-254b-4052-9a99-dd1893f5939d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0215?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "401f2c15a3c24ab5ab7ffa78b0d26e0e2cca4ac79571ba205bc19a3d28525fca"
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 SB 215 (2024) — Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_69_sb0215t.pdf)
2. **First - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0215f.pdf)
3. **Third - Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0215t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-11** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec723a79-254b-4052-9a99-dd1893f5939d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).