---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging"
description: "State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 508"
citation: "Maryland HB 508 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/082b453d-c277-44e3-bdcf-079d8f7b16f3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0508?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ac6cd01611c46c88ddfdaa20f73240269df426ce75940b735d432c9c07df19dc"
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 508 (2025) — State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_725_hb0508t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0508f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Procurement Preferences - Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Packaging and Repackaging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0508t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kerr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 725 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/082b453d-c277-44e3-bdcf-079d8f7b16f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).