---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report"
description: "Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1116"
citation: "Maryland HB 1116 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Taxes - Sales and Use", "Comptroller", "Corporations", "Exemptions", "Gender", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Sales and Use Tax", "Sunset", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87d2832f-063d-401b-b427-42450c6b7c10"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1116&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3bfaa411e2cd8498990691a6365cbd2e37ab5ae69ca35ab4e4ffef866033e533"
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 1116 (2019) — Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1116f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **103–34** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **111–29** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **37–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {355065/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Floor Amendment {943120/2 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (103-34) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable with Amendments {269239/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (37-5) `passage`
- **2019-04-06** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (111-29) `passage`
- **2019-04-06** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 513 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87d2832f-063d-401b-b427-42450c6b7c10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).