---
type: "Bill"
title: "Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)"
description: "Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1424"
citation: "Maryland HB 1424 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Amprey", "Barnes", "Behler", "Boafo", "Cardin", "Chang", "Charkoudian", "Clippinger", "D. Jones", "Edelson", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Forbes", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Harrison", "Healey", "Holmes", "Ivey", "J. Lewis", "Kaufman", "Korman", "McCaskill", "Mireku-North", "Moon", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Pruski", "R. Lewis", "Roberts", "Ruff", "Schindler", "Shetty", "Simmons", "Solomon", "Spiegel", "Stein", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Toles", "Valderrama", "Vogel", "Watson", "Wells", "White Holland", "Williams", "Wolek", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b1783c7-0634-4be6-85cc-afc64725fb6c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1424?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b0abc0fe21a453be5caa1cd84eaf00276fe350a2e799335047640d912f95e405"
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 1424 (2025) — Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_97_hb1424e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1424e.pdf)
3. **First - Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund - Alterations (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1424f.pdf)
4. **Third - Catastrophic Event Account, Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1424t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–13** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Buckel /883624/1 — **39–97** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **103–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **105–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Amprey — primary (person)
- Barnes — primary (person)
- Behler — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Clippinger — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Ruff — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wolek — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Motion Special Order until 03/05 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Ghrist) Adopted
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Barnes, J. Lewis and Ivey)
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Barnes, J. Lewis and Ivey)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, Rosapepe and Jennings)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, Rosapepe and Jennings)
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 97 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b1783c7-0634-4be6-85cc-afc64725fb6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).