---
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: "SB 152"
citation: "Maryland SB 152 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Private Sector Labor and Industry", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Spouses", "Veterans", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Manno"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/449aa1c5-e8ea-4626-9c3f-7fadcd93d49a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB152&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "3901c44e86b33456a827406c216cb5a80232da00de1cf16d0a7bca069c74e3a4"
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 SB 152 (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/sb/sb0152f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **127–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Manno — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable with Amendments {617175/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (127-10) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 586 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/449aa1c5-e8ea-4626-9c3f-7fadcd93d49a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).