republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/hb-542.md

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Bill	Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage	Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 542	Maryland HB 542 (2024)	bill		enacted	Acevero Arikan Cardin Conaway Crutchfield Grossman Kaufman Palakovich Carr Pasteur Phillips Roberson Schmidt Simmons Simpson Taylor Toles Tomlinson Valentine Vogel Wilkins Wu	3	14	1	2024-01-24	2024-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0542?ys=2024RS&search=True	9e1e579796b7b80ac2888eda9a888e058d8a75d8ca4cfa31f2373800ec67d102	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 542 (2024) — Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Acevero — primary (person)
• Arikan — primary (person)
• Cardin — primary (person)
• Conaway — primary (person)
• Crutchfield — primary (person)
• Grossman — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Pasteur — primary (person)
• Phillips — primary (person)
• Roberson — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Simmons — primary (person)
• Simpson — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Toles — primary (person)
• Tomlinson — primary (person)
• Valentine — primary (person)
• Vogel — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)
• Wu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-01-31 Hearing canceled
• 2024-01-31 Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-14 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-15 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-18 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-01 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).