---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program"
description: "Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 307"
citation: "Maryland SB 307 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-25"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4be743d6-1c7d-4e9f-ab77-9f9f59d40e7c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0307?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5a3f4f9b84f9337cccc045b3332e3f0286f2d29298d26526b42b01a85a7228e5"
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 307 (2021) — Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_699_sb0307t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0307f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0307t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **102–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-09-25** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-12-23** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2021-02-12** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-02-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Hearing 3/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-04-10** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 699 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4be743d6-1c7d-4e9f-ab77-9f9f59d40e7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).