---
type: "Bill"
title: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
description: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 597"
citation: "Maryland HB 597 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Administration", "Allen", "Alston", "Amprey", "Anderton", "Bagnall", "Bartlett", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Bouchat", "Boyce", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "D. Jones", "Davis", "Edelson", "Fennell", "Foley", "Forbes", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Griffith", "Grossman", "Guyton", "Harris", "Henson", "Hill", "Hornberger", "Jackson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Lopez", "Love", "McCaskill", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Munoz", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Qi", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Ruff", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Solomon", "Speaker", "Spiegel", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson", "Turner", "Watson", "Williams", "Wu", "Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e3bb696-2432-439c-823e-a89046bba5b1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0597?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6cbb493e1a8c93c22c4c4958cd9525cbe74e94e6ce08ee00b49e58b60fb4182e"
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 597 (2024) — Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_709_hb0597t.pdf)
2. **First - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0597f.pdf)
3. **Third - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0597t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Administration — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Amprey — primary (person)
- Anderton — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Bouchat — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Munoz — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Ruff — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e3bb696-2432-439c-823e-a89046bba5b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).