---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight"
description: "Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 738"
citation: "Maryland HB 738 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bartlett", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Feldmark", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a533b0ab-8c35-4e8d-abc8-1a0eb01354f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0738?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ac1d89126e51f73defa79f6ed71e499b4d9656f0f7fb2c11cf2461e304d2be60"
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 738 (2025) — Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_845_hb0738t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Information Technology - Reporting Guidelines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0738f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0738t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Guzzone — 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)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-05** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-25** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 845 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a533b0ab-8c35-4e8d-abc8-1a0eb01354f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).