---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Investigation of Complaints"
description: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Investigation of Complaints"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 62"
citation: "Maryland HB 62 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simpson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-10-30"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8b55be2-86cb-4460-857c-eaa27066b111"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0062?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bc474d8a1e6aea4824c7027ae65c5b71b6d05a773ba910254992d7e3f4869890"
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 62 (2024) — State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Investigation of 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 - Investigation of Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_554_hb0062t.pdf)
2. **First - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Investigation of Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0062f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Investigation of Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0062t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simpson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Hearing 1/23 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 554 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8b55be2-86cb-4460-857c-eaa27066b111`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).