---
type: "Bill"
title: "Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions"
description: "Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 639"
citation: "Maryland SB 639 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKay"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf6b3567-acbf-4d7b-8c06-1d0058a1de6d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0639?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "76271431bd522af01a95ebaa997285d6a80a55e12bb5936914e9848b98228481"
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 639 (2025) — Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_778_sb0639t.pdf)
2. **First - Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0639f.pdf)
3. **Third - Garrett County - Bids and Contracts - Advertisement Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0639t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McKay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 778 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf6b3567-acbf-4d7b-8c06-1d0058a1de6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).