---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans' Services Specialists"
description: "State Government - Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans' Services Specialists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1275"
citation: "Maryland HB 1275 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Electronic Communication", "Job Training", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vogt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3e749ff-c554-43b7-b31d-9f9028693267"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1275&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "bbc868c4e66c09c547ab4dd26dbf4020dddfd4d9e16a368c29d4f5ed2961c324"
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 1275 (2017) — State Government - Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans' Services Specialists

## 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/hb1275f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Vogt — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-09** Hearing 3/13 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {606582/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3e749ff-c554-43b7-b31d-9f9028693267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).