Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/md/2024/hb-431.md

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs"
+description: "Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 431"
+citation: "Maryland HB 431 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Boafo", "Chang", "D. Jones", "Fennell", "Forbes", "Guyton", "Henson", "J. Long", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pruski", "Rogers", "Schmidt", "Taveras", "Taylor"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-18"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa776b8e-d4dd-4d4f-85bc-a7329254ef9d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0431?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "c32cb82d78d994ef981ab97c5a1728ae9de4cc9d151a45439dd76bf1af921331"
+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 (2024) — Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_12_hb0431t.pdf)
+2. **First - Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0431f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Department of Veterans Affairs - Renaming and Deputy Secretary of Military Family Policy and Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0431t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **122–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Boafo — primary (person)
+- Chang — primary (person)
+- D. Jones — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Forbes — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- J. Long — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Pruski — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 12 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa776b8e-d4dd-4d4f-85bc-a7329254ef9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+