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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: "SB 470"
+citation: "Maryland SB 470 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Charles", "Elfreth", "Ferguson", "Folden", "Gile", "Hester", "Hettleman", "James", "Lam", "M. Washington", "McKay", "Muse", "President", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-22"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f9552ca-2057-44e5-9125-fd3a146de3a2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0470?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "fa39d24edab5ba53e60174f3f01940dd4a536ffe7092687a58298420acd39953"
+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 SB 470 (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_708_sb0470t.pdf)
+2. **First - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0470f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0470t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Ferguson — primary (person)
+- Folden — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- James — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- Muse — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-23** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-02-06** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/09 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `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`
+- **2024-03-19** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f9552ca-2057-44e5-9125-fd3a146de3a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+