---
type: "Bill"
title: "Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force"
description: "Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1026"
citation: "Maryland HB 1026 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Alston", "Attar", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Crosby", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Fair", "Fennell", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hartman", "Hill", "Holmes", "Hornberger", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rogers", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Toles", "White Holland", "Williams", "Wilson", "Woods", "Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75cb8d51-0e01-4da9-8a88-444c66aedb4e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1026?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6dfe7c280a9bb47053ff1b607663ead324fa0b7766a30d589f095ac771d051b0"
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 1026 (2024) — Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_27_hb1026t.pdf)
2. **First - Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1026f.pdf)
3. **Third - Armed Forces - Support of Military Families and Addition of Space Force** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1026t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Grammer /113521/1 — **28–89** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Hearing 3/08 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Grammer) Adopted
- **2024-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75cb8d51-0e01-4da9-8a88-444c66aedb4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).