---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints"
description: "State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Maryland HB 309 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Addison", "Bagnall", "Bartlett", "Foley", "Henson", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rogers", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Simpson", "Taylor", "Terrasa", "Vogel", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9de4c941-197b-493d-afda-53312bad6c4f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0309?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4f88595057a2c121463ee5bdb95794c9d10f0cb8e3d5cab02ec6f37e9bbf9290"
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 309 (2023) — State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_236_hb0309t.pdf)
2. **First - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0309f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0309t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Addison — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9de4c941-197b-493d-afda-53312bad6c4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).