republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/sb-308.md

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Bill	Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)	Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	SB 308	Maryland SB 308 (2018)	bill	Social Services - Generally Apprentices Child Custody Education Foster Care Human Services Department of Indigent Persons Job Training Labor Licensing and Regulation Department of Parents and Guardians Rules and Regulations Social Services Tuition Work Labor and Employment Youth	enacted	The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates	1	16	2	2018-01-22	2018-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/cbbd61b8-2c54-49e2-b0f7-2fc5c6587b80	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB308&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	3f238625832dae3ed1e9a4d189a761b62c08f968fb6d233cc943415c3ed53434	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 308 (2018) — Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)

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 — 131–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
• Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
• Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
• Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Hough — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Mathias — cosponsor (person)
• Norman — cosponsor (person)
• Ready — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Salling — cosponsor (person)
• Serafini — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-22 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Favorable with Amendments {427873/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-08 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2018-03-09 First Reading Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-19 Hearing canceled
• 2018-03-19 Hearing 3/20 at 1:15 p.m.
• 2018-03-23 Favorable Report by Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-23 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-23 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-26 Third Reading Passed (131-0) passage
• 2018-03-27 Returned Passed
• 2018-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 380 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbbd61b8-2c54-49e2-b0f7-2fc5c6587b80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).