---
type: "Bill"
title: "Howard County - Department of Correction - Authority to Establish Programs Ho. Co. 29-19"
description: "Howard County - Department of Correction - Authority to Establish Programs Ho. Co. 29-19"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1406"
citation: "Maryland HB 1406 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Correctional Institutions", "Courts", "Education", "Fees", "Home Detention", "Howard County", "Job Training", "Judges", "Pretrial Detention or Release", "Prisoners", "Rules and Regulations", "Volunteers", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd193467-25e8-4c84-80f0-dc3aa127223c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1406&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "f635e556607f7c7de82519d71049ae27516c5ed45f7d3cfe30d3e146c1f3df82"
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 1406 (2019) — Howard County - Department of Correction - Authority to Establish Programs Ho. Co. 29-19

## 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/hb1406f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Howard County Delegation — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2019-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2019-04-08** Hearing 4/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd193467-25e8-4c84-80f0-dc3aa127223c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).