---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children - Labor Trafficking"
description: "Children - Labor Trafficking"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 508"
citation: "Maryland HB 508 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Embry", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Simpson", "Taylor", "Toles", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d4b2e6e-3580-480e-89f8-fc58b45e233b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0508?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6f63ee000d17058d5176a6634164c7588e6e96a67d320fa80c44a04f0756942b"
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 508 (2024) — Children - Labor Trafficking

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Children - Labor Trafficking** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_349_hb0508t.pdf)
2. **First - Children - Labor Trafficking** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0508f.pdf)
3. **Third - Children - Labor Trafficking** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0508t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-01-31** Hearing canceled
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `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 Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d4b2e6e-3580-480e-89f8-fc58b45e233b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).