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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage"
+description: "Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 542"
+citation: "Maryland HB 542 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grossman", "Kaufman", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Roberson", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson", "Valentine", "Vogel", "Wilkins", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0542?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "9e1e579796b7b80ac2888eda9a888e058d8a75d8ca4cfa31f2373800ec67d102"
+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 542 (2024) — Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_346_hb0542t.pdf)
+2. **First - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0542f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0542t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Grossman — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Roberson — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Valentine — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-01-31** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+