---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Employees in the Same Classification - Report"
description: "State Personnel - Employees in the Same Classification - Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 523"
citation: "Maryland HB 523 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Committees and Commissions", "Human Services", "Department of", "Public Employees", "Reports", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees", "Transportation", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/842e15ca-1bc0-4f6d-b272-6ebe4fcfd0c7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB523&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b7adc087938355e5c6851f88cac86aaa50f616013b938eeddeec12fc0cd46436"
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 523 (2018) — State Personnel - Employees in the Same Classification - Report

## 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/hb0523f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **129–5** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {544967/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Special Order until later this session (Delegate A. Miller) Adopted
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {544967/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (129-5) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Special Order until later today (Senator Rosapepe) Adopted
- **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 689 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/842e15ca-1bc0-4f6d-b272-6ebe4fcfd0c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).