---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility for Benefits - Business Operation Closings"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility for Benefits - Business Operation Closings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "Maryland SB 17 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Insurance", "Commerce and Business", "Exemptions", "Insurance", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Unemployment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-09-29"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67da135d-eb77-4827-83a6-2b01fb558326"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB17&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d096a9e88fbec8f5b4b1e5389662fa95b72bfcb993c4eb04cf3692fcb7e8f755"
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 17 (2017) — Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility for Benefits - Business Operation Closings

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0017f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-09-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-23** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67da135d-eb77-4827-83a6-2b01fb558326`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).