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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)"
+description: "Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 417"
+citation: "Maryland SB 417 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-29"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf3411bf-5a3e-47ed-bc23-284f4ae9fa72"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0417?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "575a430659251ecbf7805365c61b1756605326b81e94ec092d529ea5f1184406"
+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 417 (2026) — Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_221_sb0417t.pdf)
+2. **First - Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0417f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0417t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **31–12** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **96–37** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lam — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-29** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-19** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator West) Adopted
+- **2026-03-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-20** Floor Amendment {
+- **2026-03-20** Motion Laid Over (Senator Gallion) Adopted
+- **2026-03-20** Floor Amendment {
+- **2026-03-20** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-23** Referred Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-02** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-02** Motion Special Order until 04/03 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
+- **2026-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf3411bf-5a3e-47ed-bc23-284f4ae9fa72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+