---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth"
description: "State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "Maryland SB 225 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman", "Hayes", "Hester", "Kelley", "King", "Lee", "Miller", "Patterson", "Peters", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "Washington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32dc1e1f-c8fc-4bbf-8a37-f5a67c75c972"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0225?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fc2ac0e5144dcc199b199dae11b7854d295751cee22918eeb02c6543a688ee79"
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 225 (2020) — State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_234_sb0225t.pdf)
2. **First - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0225f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Personnel - Employee Accommodations - Pregnancy and Childbirth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0225t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-16** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 234 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32dc1e1f-c8fc-4bbf-8a37-f5a67c75c972`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).