---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth"
description: "State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 523"
citation: "Maryland HB 523 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman", "Valderrama"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-27"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba784896-d21b-4847-a8ee-53ee06b2ed92"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0523?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d9d6ae2972c8dfb4e51c5a14430cd7e5d1b3cce19dfd749032274058be418989"
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 (2020) — State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_233_hb0523t.pdf)
2. **First - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0523f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0523t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 523 HB 547 HB 616 HB 631 HB 671 HB 771 HB 774 HB 852 HB 928 HB 1029 HB 1033 — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-27** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 233 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba784896-d21b-4847-a8ee-53ee06b2ed92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).