---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions"
description: "State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 507"
citation: "Maryland HB 507 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/737bb3db-af4d-4021-a52f-7349baf1584f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0507?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fed0db4c015b882599d1455fa7e93c200759dcff61f688eff90338e09b4d5c2e"
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 507 (2025) — State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_724_hb0507t.pdf)
2. **First - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0507f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0507t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## 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 Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 724 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/737bb3db-af4d-4021-a52f-7349baf1584f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).