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type: "Bill"
title: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
description: "Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 470"
citation: "Maryland SB 470 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Charles", "Elfreth", "Ferguson", "Folden", "Gile", "Hester", "Hettleman", "James", "Lam", "M. Washington", "McKay", "Muse", "President", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f9552ca-2057-44e5-9125-fd3a146de3a2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0470?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fa39d24edab5ba53e60174f3f01940dd4a536ffe7092687a58298420acd39953"
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 470 (2024) — Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_708_sb0470t.pdf)
2. **First - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0470f.pdf)
3. **Third - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0470t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1370** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Ferguson — primary (person)
- Folden — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-06** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/09 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f9552ca-2057-44e5-9125-fd3a146de3a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).