---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equal Employment Opportunity Program - Sexual Harassment Reporting"
description: "Equal Employment Opportunity Program - Sexual Harassment Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1228"
citation: "Maryland HB 1228 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Discrimination", "Harassment", "Job Training", "Reports", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly and A. Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/634be0a1-cd06-4c4d-a503-59d0236cfeb2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1228&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "6bfc6b8b8668aed92f05ebce9fc8b6bd65fcedd321eda5738f1d1d604122a1fc"
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 1228 (2018) — Equal Employment Opportunity Program - Sexual Harassment Reporting

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1228f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly and A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/23 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Reassigned to Finance
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 788 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/634be0a1-cd06-4c4d-a503-59d0236cfeb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).