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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage"
description: "Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 542"
citation: "Maryland HB 542 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grossman", "Kaufman", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Roberson", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson", "Valentine", "Vogel", "Wilkins", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0542?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9e1e579796b7b80ac2888eda9a888e058d8a75d8ca4cfa31f2373800ec67d102"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_346_hb0542t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0542f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0542t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1340** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86a2bfed-6401-4f02-a1ad-158a2f4a2806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).