---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Recovery of Benefits - Collection by Assessment"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Recovery of Benefits - Collection by Assessment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 21"
citation: "Maryland SB 21 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Insurance", "Assessments", "Civil Actions", "Insurance", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Unemployment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-10-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52673519-7ea6-4500-9a70-df4eee1261a2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB21&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7273798b948a2ee038381152033582ef6cb4ffcfc7b39238c39ff4bea7b7b9e2"
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 21 (2017) — Unemployment Insurance - Recovery of Benefits - Collection by Assessment

## 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/sb0021f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (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.

- **2016-10-03** 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 with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable with Amendments {847875/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52673519-7ea6-4500-9a70-df4eee1261a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).