Maryland Senate Bill 740 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-03-04 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizing a county to enact a local law to provide for a certain innovative development competition for purposes of encouraging development proposals from private entities by granting cash prizes to projects selected by a certain Board to foster certain types of innovation; providing that a prize awarded through an innovative development competition may not exceed $250,000 and shall be matched by the State Innovative Development Fund, and may only be used to implement a winning project; etc.

Counties – Innovative Development Competitions

Sen. Katie Hester [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-04	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
2019-02-28	Senate	Hearing canceled
2019-02-06	Senate	Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
2019-02-04	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0740?ys=2019rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0740f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/votes_comm/sb0740_ehe.pdf