---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions and Enforcement"
description: "Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions and Enforcement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 136"
citation: "Maryland HB 136 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-28"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac230a96-e270-4869-84f4-4da332efd153"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0136?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "23c873ff5d8ac9cf302865a0142d4ef08e4d40df13f8c9f6ea3fe7f22adf7363"
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 136 (2024) — Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions and Enforcement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions and Enforcement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_207_hb0136t.pdf)
2. **First - Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0136f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employment Standards, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Employer Adverse Actions and Enforcement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0136t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **102–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Economic Matters Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-28** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac230a96-e270-4869-84f4-4da332efd153`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).