---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)"
description: "Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1443"
citation: "Maryland HB 1443 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Allen", "Buckel", "Griffith", "Guyton", "Korman", "Pippy", "Rogers", "S. Johnson", "Wilson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d06d4df1-4803-46cd-bf3e-b07154370cbd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1443?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d360001958660da983525b041c0d23ab8cd229f4bc061697c23a9298162084a9"
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 1443 (2025) — Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_273_hb1443t.pdf)
2. **First - Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1443f.pdf)
3. **Third - Local Government - Hiring and Promotion Preferences for Veterans and Spouses of Service Members and Veterans (Families Serve Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1443t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d06d4df1-4803-46cd-bf3e-b07154370cbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).