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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Commerce – Employment in the State’s Defense Industry – Study"
+description: "Department of Commerce – Employment in the State’s Defense Industry – Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1542"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1542 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Economic and Community Development", "Private Sector Labor and Industry", "Armed Forces", "Commerce", "Department of", "Grants", "Industry and Technology", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Public Corporations and Instrumentalities", "Reports", "State Employees", "Sunset", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lisanti"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63eebbb5-3731-4ab4-9776-dff84ee347a2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1542&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "f90af9fb9cea3d16bcb00911b4d8b2fff1b66a71a668b9bae8c027c52e82dc37"
+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 1542 (2018) — Department of Commerce – Employment in the State’s Defense Industry – Study
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1542f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lisanti — primary (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {623892/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (134-1) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-26** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {317372/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-07** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 795 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63eebbb5-3731-4ab4-9776-dff84ee347a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+