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type: "Bill"
title: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
description: "Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 308"
citation: "Maryland SB 308 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbbd61b8-2c54-49e2-b0f7-2fc5c6587b80"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB308&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "3f238625832dae3ed1e9a4d189a761b62c08f968fb6d233cc943415c3ed53434"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0308f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1310** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbbd61b8-2c54-49e2-b0f7-2fc5c6587b80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).