---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Services - Funding"
description: "Emergency Services - Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1439"
citation: "Maryland HB 1439 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnes", "D. Jones", "Hinebaugh", "Shetty"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c6d9d11-fd0a-4a69-94bb-b1d67d40092b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1439?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b91db8894eeef668fbdcc25d15e38330fa66ba837c58f07235a40ba7d74ea0af"
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 1439 (2024) — Emergency Services - Funding

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Emergency Services - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_718_hb1439t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Funding for Trauma Centers and Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1439f.pdf)
3. **Third - Emergency Services - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1439t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–4** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **124–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barnes — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Hinebaugh — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-09** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-27** Hearing 2/28 at 12:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c6d9d11-fd0a-4a69-94bb-b1d67d40092b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).