---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Civil Penalty and Referrals"
description: "Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Civil Penalty and Referrals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 465"
citation: "Maryland HB 465 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Amprey", "Boafo", "Charkoudian", "Fennell", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Harrison", "Jackson", "Pruski", "Queen", "Rogers", "Shetty", "Toles", "Turner", "Valderrama"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a35b7958-1803-41cc-8b13-609eb6d971b7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0465?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fd04426fb6af33658fcb2e521ec2649578800a206b1fdb3a9ae48e798a6c88db"
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 465 (2024) — Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Civil Penalty and Referrals

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Civil Penalty and Referrals** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_309_hb0465t.pdf)
2. **First - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Penalties and Referrals** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0465f.pdf)
3. **Third - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Civil Penalty and Referrals** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0465t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–36** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **30–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **34–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Amprey — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2024-04-06** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-06** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2024-04-06** Senate Recede
- **2024-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a35b7958-1803-41cc-8b13-609eb6d971b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).