---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints"
description: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 574"
citation: "Maryland SB 574 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lewis Young", "Salling"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8078bc13-a3ee-46a8-8096-b17d3fdd8004"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0574?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ccbe8a548251a114d708ca3747c5e3d0dfd6df81f3cb430130197faf7e7a3248"
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 574 (2023) — State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_235_sb0574t.pdf)
2. **First - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0574f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0574t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2023-03-26** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 235 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8078bc13-a3ee-46a8-8096-b17d3fdd8004`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).