Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB850: Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices - Establishment
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Establishing the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices to study the most efficient and cost-effective method to create a publicly available data dashboard that disaggregates information regarding public work contracts with the State and apprentices working under the public work contracts; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 7, 2027.
What the bill says
An act concerning Procurement - Public Work Contracts - Data Dashboard (Maryland Public Works and Apprenticeship Transparency Act) Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices - Establishment FOR the purpose of requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to develop and maintain a data dashboard that includes certain information relating to contractors, subcontractors, employees, and apprentices working under public work contracts…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Procurement - Public Work Contracts - Data Dashboard (Maryland Public Works and Apprenticeship Transparency Act) Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices - Establishment FOR the purpose of requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to develop and maintain a data dashboard that includes certain information relating to contractors, subcontractors, employees, and apprentices working under public work contracts; requiring each contractor who is contracted under a public work contract to provide certain information to the Commissioner; requiring the Commissioner to update the data dashboard on a certain basis, post the data dashboard on the Maryland Department of Labor website, and maintain a certain cache; and generally relating to public work contracts establishing the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices to study the most efficient and cost-effective method to create a publicly available data dashboard that disaggregates information regarding public work contracts with the State and apprentices working under the public work contracts; and generally relating to the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices. BY adding to Article - State Finance and Procurement Section 17-206 Annotated Code of Maryland (2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF …