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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension"
+description: "Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 809"
+citation: "Maryland HB 809 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Vogel", "White Holland", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-31"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa17e56-9539-46a7-968a-ead81e9ab77b"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0809?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "4051ba1a7d2dc10401196fe1dce00e283a497ff8c89e29d0d00006fe817b4f77"
+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 809 (2024) — Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_469_hb0809t.pdf)
+2. **First - Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0809f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Members of Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, or Workgroups – Removal or Suspension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0809t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-18** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfa17e56-9539-46a7-968a-ead81e9ab77b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+