---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
description: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Maryland HB 431 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Social Services - Generally", "Apprentices", "Education", "Foster Care", "Human Services", "Department of", "Indigent Persons", "Job Training", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Rules and Regulations", "Social Services", "Tuition", "Work", "Labor and Employment", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30a082c2-fd34-4af7-b667-5518140be54d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB431&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8830610a1aa563bb40e5e3bef6e7b076de4d10ec9c5725cff685bb4063dfc793"
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 431 (2018) — Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)

## 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/hb0431f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-12** Hearing canceled
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/15 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {474362/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** 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
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30a082c2-fd34-4af7-b667-5518140be54d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).