---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act"
description: "Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1145"
citation: "Maryland HB 1145 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "State Government - Personnel", "Baltimore City", "Civil Actions", "Counties", "Crimes and Punishments", "Disclosure", "Public Employees", "Public Schools", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarlau"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c2b5caf-5564-458b-bd9c-4f27832ccb1f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1145&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "fe57cc91865c68dfc6f740e212514a532811c6a5aeaf5b508b9ffec56edbb63c"
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 1145 (2017) — Public School Employee Whistleblower Protection Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1145f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Tarlau — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {145266/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Reassigned to Finance
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Special Order until 10:00 pm (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (36-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c2b5caf-5564-458b-bd9c-4f27832ccb1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).