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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)"
+description: "Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 581"
+citation: "Maryland HB 581 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D.E. Davis"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 11
+first_action: "2021-01-20"
+last_action: "2021-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49aa4ae9-1829-4d5c-a649-b905cb5c23be"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0581?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "11955f7383da050d009d0c09f94b671e435a212f164b640c75313e9b13d4dfa6"
+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 581 (2021) — Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_736_hb0581t.pdf)
+2. **First - Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0581f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0581t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **31–15** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Buckel /723327/1 — **45–88** (fail) · lower
+- On third reading — **32–14** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Chisholm /653028/1 — **45–89** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **93–39** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Amendment Hershey /713423/1 — **17–29** (fail) · upper
+- FLA Del. Kipke /863821/1 — **43–92** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Chisholm /873429/1 — **45–90** (fail) · lower
+- Floor Amendment Hershey /453020/1 — **20–25** (fail) · upper
+- Motion to Special Order Previous Question — **104–31** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Special Order — **43–94** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D.E. Davis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-20** First Reading Economic Matters and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-22** Hearing 2/05 at 11:00 a.m. (Economic Matters)
+- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-01** Motion Special Order until 04/02 (Delegate Wilson) Adopted
+- **2021-04-02** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-02** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-02** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-02** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-02** Motion Special Order until 4/5 (Delegate Parrott)
+- **2021-04-02** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate D.E. Davis) Adopted
+- **2021-04-02** Motion Special Order until 04/05 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected
+- **2021-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-05** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-08** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2021-04-08** Hearing 4/09 at 9:30 a.m.
+- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-10** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-10** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-10** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
+- **2021-04-12** House Requests Senate Recede
+- **2021-04-12** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilson, D.E. Davis and Dumais)
+- **2021-04-12** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
+- **2021-04-12** House Requests Senate Recede
+- **2021-04-12** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilson, D.E. Davis and Dumais)
+- **2021-04-12** Motion Reconsider Third Reading (Senator Kelley) Adopted
+- **2021-04-12** Motion Reconsider Amendments (Senator Kelley) Adopted
+- **2021-04-12** Motion Withdraw Amendments (Senator Kelley) Adopted
+- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Recede
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Recede
+- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
+- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 736 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49aa4ae9-1829-4d5c-a649-b905cb5c23be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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