Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB502: Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established
Status: Chaptered, April 8, 2025
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027, to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the Office; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established FOR the purpose of establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce…
From the enrolled text, April 10, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established FOR the purpose of establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce; and generally relating to the establishment of the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Human Services Section 7-114(b) Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Human Services Section 7-1201 through 7-1205 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 12. Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy" Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Human Services 7-114. (b) The Department shall oversee and administer the following programs and (2) the Assistive Technology Guaranteed Loan Program under Subtitle 6 of this title; Ch. 1 2025 LAWS OF MARYLAND (3) the Office of Personal Assistance Services, including the …