---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service"
description: "Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Maryland HB 12 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Brooks", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "Reilly", "Rogers", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-10-25"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/615b0498-c737-43a8-a63d-51f4c4c814b3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0012?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ada0677183a9d1ed0b53601e99eb384a7d9f4442621c47f2bc2e39e91fc1bb72"
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 12 (2020) — Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_23_hb0012t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0012f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Veterans Affairs - Homes for Veterans - Veterans of Uniformed Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0012t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barron — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-25** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/615b0498-c737-43a8-a63d-51f4c4c814b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).