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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act"
description: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1526"
citation: "Maryland HB 1526 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clippinger", "Edelson", "Metzgar", "R. Lewis", "R. Long"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-29"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2af46586-6c7b-4c32-995e-4e1fc001bfbf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1526?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "db6175e79020e115f595c659dac4d8843466c30671a637ecfd3ca11abfbfdda9"
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 1526 (2024) — Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_2_hb1526t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1526f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1526t.pdf)
## Votes
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **460** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Chisholm /293128/1 — **3997** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Chisholm /783524/1 — **3995** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **1292** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Clippinger — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Metzgar — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- R. Long — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-29** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** Motion Rules Suspend for Late Introduction (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2024-03-29** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Rereferred to Economic Matters and Appropriations
- **2024-04-02** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2024-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-04-08** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Motion Rules Suspend to Refer (Senator Hettleman) Adopted
- **2024-04-08** Rereferred to Finance and Budget and Taxation
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator King) Adopted
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2af46586-6c7b-4c32-995e-4e1fc001bfbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).