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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act"
+description: "Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1145"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1145 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "State Government - Personnel", "Baltimore City", "Civil Actions", "Counties", "Crimes and Punishments", "Disclosure", "Public Employees", "Public Schools", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tarlau"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-09"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c2b5caf-5564-458b-bd9c-4f27832ccb1f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1145&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "fe57cc91865c68dfc6f740e212514a532811c6a5aeaf5b508b9ffec56edbb63c"
+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 1145 (2017) — Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1145f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tarlau — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {145266/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Reassigned to Finance
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Special Order until 10:00 pm (Senator Ready) Adopted
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (36-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c2b5caf-5564-458b-bd9c-4f27832ccb1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+