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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of General Services - Study on Procurement Preferences for Businesses in Historically Underutilized Business Zones"
description: "Department of General Services - Study on Procurement Preferences for Businesses in Historically Underutilized Business Zones"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 644"
citation: "Maryland SB 644 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salling"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2e80450-38f2-43a9-8df4-1cf147a8a151"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0644?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "883d1ffb15d7b2ef1137b55549b939dbaff88f36b581b84e3bc80a69daddc6ee"
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 644 (2022) — Department of General Services - Study on Procurement Preferences for Businesses in Historically Underutilized Business Zones
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Department of General Services - Study on Procurement Preferences for Businesses in Historically Underutilized Business Zones** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_518_sb0644t.pdf)
2. **First - State Procurement - Preferences - Historically Underutilized Business Zone Businesses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0644f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of General Services - Study on Procurement Preferences for Businesses in Historically Underutilized Business Zones** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0644t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1310** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Salling — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-05** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 518 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2e80450-38f2-43a9-8df4-1cf147a8a151`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).