republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/hb-1617.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps	Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 1617	Maryland HB 1617 (2018)	bill	Private Sector Labor and Industry Administrative Agencies Committees and Commissions Spouses Veterans Work Labor and Employment	enacted	Morales	1	14	2	2018-02-09	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/c2e5709f-d5ff-44c5-ad04-f8f78a4498d0	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1617&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	d65d736cc68f6256a6f14261d3cd5fa683420d363ef46650c7a4c543f1fe7246	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1617 (2018) — Labor and Employment - Hiring and Promotion Preferences - Veterans of Commissioned Corps

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 120–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Morales — primary (person)
• A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Anderton — cosponsor (person)
• Carozza — cosponsor (person)
• D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
• Glenn — cosponsor (person)
• Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
• Mosby — cosponsor (person)
• P. Young — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
• Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-09 First Reading Economic Matters referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-15 Favorable Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-15 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-15 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-17 Third Reading Passed (120-14) passage
• 2018-03-19 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-28 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-28 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-29 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2018-03-30 Returned Passed
• 2018-05-15 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 587 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2e5709f-d5ff-44c5-ad04-f8f78a4498d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).