---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund"
description: "Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 597"
citation: "Maryland SB 597 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5aa3e1e-226b-4347-9b1e-bc3b7273edab"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0597?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f9694dbcbcab3485fdba60747d08418826573a2520134a613b28b770a7279104"
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 597 (2024) — Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_194_sb0597e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0597e.pdf)
3. **First - Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0597f.pdf)
4. **Third - Human Services - Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0597t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **134–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5aa3e1e-226b-4347-9b1e-bc3b7273edab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).