---
type: "Bill"
title: "Time to Serve Act of 2024"
description: "Time to Serve Act of 2024"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 477"
citation: "Maryland SB 477 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Bailey", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Carter", "Charles", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Folden", "Gallion", "Gile", "Hershey", "Hester", "Hettleman", "James", "Lam", "M. Washington", "Mautz", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efd778aa-8a2b-45c9-96ed-56b9d8686231"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0477?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9c9677a0acf21258a91d4728721f77498815670a738436dea060a6536cd28806"
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 SB 477 (2024) — Time to Serve Act of 2024

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_8_sb0477t.pdf)
2. **First - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0477f.pdf)
3. **Third - Time to Serve Act of 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0477t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Bailey — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Carter — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Corderman — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Folden — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Reassigned to Finance
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efd778aa-8a2b-45c9-96ed-56b9d8686231`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).