---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civilian Federal Employees – Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund (Federal Shutdown Paycheck Protection Act)"
description: "Civilian Federal Employees – Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund (Federal Shutdown Paycheck Protection Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 391"
citation: "Maryland SB 391 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Insurance", "Federal Government", "Insurance", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Loans", "Unemployment", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a9c4c1d-0966-4623-a2de-969463b2b58e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB391&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b82ae23aa9362b5aeb9e193af21163fffc8cbe86f785f63de6836d820d351e78"
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 391 (2019) — Civilian Federal Employees – Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund (Federal Shutdown Paycheck Protection Act)

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0391f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **111–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** Favorable with Amendments {387875/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-26** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2019-02-27** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (111-27) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2019-03-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a9c4c1d-0966-4623-a2de-969463b2b58e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).