CHAPTER NUMBER: 299
File Code: Economic and Community Development
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 185
- Sponsored By:
-
The President (Administration) and Senators McFadden,
Currie, Lawlah, and Middleton
- Entitled:
-
Maryland Competitive Advantage Financing Fund
Creating the Maryland Competitive Advantage Financing Fund as a
nonlapsing fund to provide financial assistance for the development
and expansion of small businesses in the State; specifying the status,
funding sources, and use of the Fund; specifying how applicants for
loans are to be evaluated and selected; specifying how loans are to be
made; providing that the Fund is a growth-related project; requiring
various reports from specified entities; requiring that a specified
study panel convene during the 1999 Interim; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 2/3
- Hearing 2/17 at 1:30 p.m.
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment (Budget and Taxation) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/29
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/10
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/13
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 299
House Action
- 3/29
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 3/31
- Hearing 4/6 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/7
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (123-14)
- Sponsored by:
- President of the Senate
- Administration
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -see also- ENTERPRISE ZONES;SMALL BUS.
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- LOANS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SMALL BUSINESS
- SUNSET
- TREASURERS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 83A Department of Business and Economic Development
- (
5-1301 ,
5-1302 ,
5-1303 ,
5-1304 ,
5-1305
)
- State Finance and Procurement
- (
5-7B-01
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 219125/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 26, 1999 at:
12:34 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 689321/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 26, 1999 at:
12:34 p.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 233786/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1999 at:
2:46 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 773684/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1999 at:
10:40 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 29, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 10, 1999: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- House
- April 7, 1999: Third Reading Passed with Amendments (123-14)