---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings"
description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 592"
citation: "Maryland SB 592 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Feldman", "Gallion", "Guzzone", "Hester", "Hettleman", "Kagan", "King", "Lewis Young", "M. Washington", "Simonaire", "Waldstreicher", "Watson", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0bccf28-dab1-4513-95af-b3b1094460e3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0592?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "02fdf5aa7175aea188e55eb3c92a3bf348dd132b7b699ba9ecdb1cd81385ac46"
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 592 (2024) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_173_sb0592t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0592f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0592t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/23 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-27** Hearing 3/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0bccf28-dab1-4513-95af-b3b1094460e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).