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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency"
+description: "Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 649"
+citation: "Maryland HB 649 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Boafo", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Fennell", "Foley", "Grossman", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Lopez", "McCaskill", "Mireku-North", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Queen", "Shetty", "Taveras", "Turner", "Valderrama", "White Holland", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-25"
+last_action: "2024-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f78efac-6c3b-49cc-b4ba-a08a63c38e3f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0649?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "43a0971a060c07bf91a0b17e05fc7f0e49a17a49deaf160a20c811648c4965e1"
+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 649 (2024) — Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_271_hb0649t.pdf)
+2. **First - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0649f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0649t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **99–35** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **37–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Boafo — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Grossman — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-25** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `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 Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f78efac-6c3b-49cc-b4ba-a08a63c38e3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+