---
type: "Bill"
title: "Government Shutdowns - Employees - Protections"
description: "Government Shutdowns - Employees - Protections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 512"
citation: "Maryland SB 512 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Property", "Utility Regulation", "Budgets", "Corporations", "Courts", "Emergency Bills", "Federal Government", "Foreclosure", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Legislation", "Mortgages", "Public Employees", "Public Service Commission", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "State Employees", "Termination of Services", "Utilities", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/380e6992-dce3-4b12-b217-dd32e82aee1f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB512&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "43d2a47deee3f50dd3b1eae3147c65b2b76a06a1253752c5cc2511372ceb0409"
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 512 (2019) — Government Shutdowns - Employees - Protections

## 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/sb0512f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **107–32** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **41–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellis — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — 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)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {227275/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (41-5) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Economic Matters and Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (107-32) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 522 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/380e6992-dce3-4b12-b217-dd32e82aee1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).