---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps"
description: "Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1617"
citation: "Maryland HB 1617 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Private Sector Labor and Industry", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Spouses", "Veterans", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2e5709f-d5ff-44c5-ad04-f8f78a4498d0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1617&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "d65d736cc68f6256a6f14261d3cd5fa683420d363ef46650c7a4c543f1fe7246"
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 1617 (2018) — Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps

## 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/hb1617f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **120–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morales — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-17** Third Reading Passed (120-14) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 587 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2e5709f-d5ff-44c5-ad04-f8f78a4498d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).