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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
+description: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 597"
+citation: "Maryland HB 597 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Administration", "Allen", "Alston", "Amprey", "Anderton", "Bagnall", "Bartlett", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Bouchat", "Boyce", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "D. Jones", "Davis", "Edelson", "Fennell", "Foley", "Forbes", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Griffith", "Grossman", "Guyton", "Harris", "Henson", "Hill", "Hornberger", "Jackson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Lopez", "Love", "McCaskill", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Munoz", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Qi", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Ruff", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Solomon", "Speaker", "Spiegel", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson", "Turner", "Watson", "Williams", "Wu", "Young"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e3bb696-2432-439c-823e-a89046bba5b1"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0597?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "6cbb493e1a8c93c22c4c4958cd9525cbe74e94e6ce08ee00b49e58b60fb4182e"
+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 597 (2024) — Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_709_hb0597t.pdf)
+2. **First - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0597f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0597t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Amprey — primary (person)
+- Anderton — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Boafo — primary (person)
+- Bouchat — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- D. Jones — primary (person)
+- Davis — primary (person)
+- Edelson — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Forbes — primary (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Grossman — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Jackson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Munoz — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Pruski — primary (person)
+- Qi — primary (person)
+- Roberson — primary (person)
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Ruff — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Speaker — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e3bb696-2432-439c-823e-a89046bba5b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+