republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/sb-478.md

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Bill	Families Serve Act of 2024	Families Serve Act of 2024	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	SB 478	Maryland SB 478 (2024)	bill		enacted	Administration Augustine Bailey Beidle Brooks Carozza Charles Elfreth Ellis Folden Gallion Gile Hershey Hester Hettleman James Klausmeier Lam Mautz McKay President Ready Rosapepe Salling Waldstreicher West Zucker	4	15	3	2024-01-22	2024-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/b6a027f2-ed59-435e-8dd1-5bf107093e8c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0478?ys=2024RS&search=True	307cc8a757f632008d047daafc407a63d630c2516803021b505bcfbdbae31dd9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 478 (2024) — Families Serve Act of 2024

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Families Serve Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Families Serve Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Families Serve Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Families Serve Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Amend) — 138–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Administration — primary (person)
• Augustine — primary (person)
• Bailey — primary (person)
• Beidle — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• Carozza — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Ellis — primary (person)
• Folden — primary (person)
• Gallion — primary (person)
• Gile — primary (person)
• Hershey — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• James — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Mautz — primary (person)
• McKay — primary (person)
• President — primary (person)
• Ready — primary (person)
• Rosapepe — primary (person)
• Salling — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-11 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-15 Referred Economic Matters referral-committee
• 2024-04-08 Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-08 Senate Concurs House Amendments
• 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-08 Passed Enrolled
• 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6a027f2-ed59-435e-8dd1-5bf107093e8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).