---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages"
description: "Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Maryland SB 119 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-09-17"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83f73f7c-ca13-4db2-8c22-f82f4723da92"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0119?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fe193a909d75572cb6dadbdc5dad4b4c62b1e6358421a937294645e06a7ef256"
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 119 (2020) — Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_533_sb0119t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0119f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Wage Payment and Collection - Order to Pay Wages** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0119t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-20** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-01-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-01-30** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-01-31** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 533 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83f73f7c-ca13-4db2-8c22-f82f4723da92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).