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type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs"
description: "Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Maryland HB 15 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-10-09"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c240fb-0f3d-4da7-b2ad-5d6e8a58de79"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0015?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "35465e5270116ae522b9ba71c32e3c86734e5b2cc9083325a6b339cd7a4bfcb5"
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 15 (2021) — Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_674_hb0015e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0015e.pdf)
3. **First - Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0015f.pdf)
4. **Third - Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0015t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **10231** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **10138** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **3014** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-11** Hearing 1/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-18** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 674 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c240fb-0f3d-4da7-b2ad-5d6e8a58de79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).