---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency"
description: "Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 649"
citation: "Maryland HB 649 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Boafo", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Fennell", "Foley", "Grossman", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Lopez", "McCaskill", "Mireku-North", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Queen", "Shetty", "Taveras", "Turner", "Valderrama", "White Holland", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f78efac-6c3b-49cc-b4ba-a08a63c38e3f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0649?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "43a0971a060c07bf91a0b17e05fc7f0e49a17a49deaf160a20c811648c4965e1"
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 649 (2024) — Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_271_hb0649t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0649f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Equal Pay for Equal Work - Wage Range Transparency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0649t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **99–35** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **37–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** 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
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f78efac-6c3b-49cc-b4ba-a08a63c38e3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).