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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
+description: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 431"
+citation: "Maryland HB 431 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Social Services - Generally", "Apprentices", "Education", "Foster Care", "Human Services", "Department of", "Indigent Persons", "Job Training", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Rules and Regulations", "Social Services", "Tuition", "Work", "Labor and Employment", "Youth"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-24"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30a082c2-fd34-4af7-b667-5518140be54d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB431&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "8830610a1aa563bb40e5e3bef6e7b076de4d10ec9c5725cff685bb4063dfc793"
+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 431 (2018) — Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)
+
+## 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/hb0431f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams — primary (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
+- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
+- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- McKay — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Otto — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-12** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/15 at 3:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {474362/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30a082c2-fd34-4af7-b667-5518140be54d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+