---
type: "Bill"
title: "Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities"
description: "Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "Maryland HB 78 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian", "Rogers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-09-30"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd25caee-e8ed-4014-ad2b-08c2cd85f1c3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0078?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2689eaa2ccdd7cc0dc6d36aac54d4855c98ceaf93751bf16f43cf3aec02abef8"
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 78 (2022) — Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_325_hb0078t.pdf)
2. **First - Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0078f.pdf)
3. **Third - Discrimination in Employment - Reasonable Accommodations for Applicants With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0078t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **118–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-02-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd25caee-e8ed-4014-ad2b-08c2cd85f1c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).