---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Professional Service - Maryland School for the Deaf - Teachers"
description: "State Personnel - Professional Service - Maryland School for the Deaf - Teachers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "Maryland HB 137 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Deaf Persons", "Public Schools", "Salaries and Compensation", "School Administration", "State Employees", "Teachers", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90ff033e-705b-4994-9f48-778d9f4d336f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB137&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "9f45147759963c542d423dfa49dd04a71d2349b6d6ef879780ddd1188fd715b3"
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 137 (2019) — State Personnel - Professional Service - Maryland School for the Deaf - Teachers

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0137f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kerr — primary (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 538 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90ff033e-705b-4994-9f48-778d9f4d336f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).