---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established"
description: "Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "Maryland HB 502 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Allen", "Bhandari", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Fennell", "Foley", "Hornberger", "Jackson", "Kerr", "Phillips", "Ruff", "Simpson", "Speaker", "Stein", "Taveras", "Toles", "Turner", "Vogel", "Wilkins", "Woods", "Woorman", "Wu"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/073c43f4-0269-418f-97f7-f572d7dfb082"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0502?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f5de58aba5406d108b2d3f4383c053cc0c1217960011760ad49d9176bc0608bb"
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 502 (2025) — Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_1_hb0502e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0502e.pdf)
3. **First - Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0502f.pdf)
4. **Third - Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0502t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **102–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **35–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **106–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Ruff — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-31** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/073c43f4-0269-418f-97f7-f572d7dfb082`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).