---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City – Baltimore Police Department – Percentage of Civilian Employees"
description: "Baltimore City – Baltimore Police Department – Percentage of Civilian Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 499"
citation: "Maryland SB 499 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Baltimore City", "Law Enforcement", "Public Employees", "Reports", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ebacd39-3112-45ba-ab1e-46fb07537bd5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB499&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "30842563eae36aac41ed237e216bcccc439af42736e236c90d1a37888f7e7719"
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 499 (2019) — Baltimore City – Baltimore Police Department – Percentage of Civilian Employees

## 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/sb/sb0499f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hayes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {172113/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ebacd39-3112-45ba-ab1e-46fb07537bd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).