---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Exemption From Covered Employment - Youth Sports Workers"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Exemption From Covered Employment - Youth Sports Workers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Maryland SB 70 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Insurance", "Exemptions", "Federal Government", "Insurance", "Sports and Recreation", "Unemployment", "Volunteers", "Work", "Labor and Employment", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waugh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-10-24"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64156211-36a4-4dba-a47d-32bfa9bc11c3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB70&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "02668f42b7c544c739d0ac6d664d647b5ff749fd5b62ed35ae8f3e8ce36766ef"
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 70 (2017) — Unemployment Insurance - Exemption From Covered Employment - Youth Sports Workers

## 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/sb0070f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Waugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-10-24** 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 {787670/1 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`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **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 (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64156211-36a4-4dba-a47d-32bfa9bc11c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).