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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Employees – Parental Leave"
+description: "State Employees – Parental Leave"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 859"
+citation: "Maryland SB 859 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Administrative Agencies", "Adoption - see also- Parents and Guardians", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Child Care", "Committees and Commissions", "Leave", "Parents and Guardians", "Pregnancy", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2da8bd6d-a908-43d9-83dd-b48439d4e921"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB859&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9bdb4a930a88be12587de5b5f50e27b98d6c79f15721db73aeec06b87524fa60"
+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 SB 859 (2018) — State Employees – Parental Leave
+
+## 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/sb/sb0859f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **34–10** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **47–91** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **96–41** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **100–40** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ferguson — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {987378/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Special Order until later today (Senator Hough) Adopted
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {987378/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (36-11) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-29** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {114467/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-04** Floor Amendment {743028/1 (Delegate Arentz) Rejected (47-91) `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (96-41) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Appointed
+- **2018-04-09** Senators Astle, Reilly, and Klausmeier
+- **2018-04-09** House Refuses to Recede
+- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Appointed
+- **2018-04-09** Delegates A. Miller, Korman, and Vogt
+- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (34-10) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (100-40) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2da8bd6d-a908-43d9-83dd-b48439d4e921`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+