---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation"
description: "Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 602"
citation: "Maryland HB 602 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clippinger", "Speaker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d0f4904-13ef-4e6d-b08e-6ef73a67f0c7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0602?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "38d911db7d188a16cad2723996e917a06fa359c986195d8d96ba3fbe02f156c9"
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 602 (2024) — Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_131_hb0602t.pdf)
2. **First - Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0602f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employment Discrimination – Sexual Orientation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0602t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clippinger — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d0f4904-13ef-4e6d-b08e-6ef73a67f0c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).