---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements"
description: "State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 693"
citation: "Maryland SB 693 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson", "Elfreth", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "King", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "McCray", "Peters", "Rosapepe", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67827571-f959-48cc-a7c3-3d94d2359207"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0693?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "acb4de838c4b6078d5179f0088a5740e3dc3f72a94519026a71a2e52beae68b9"
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 693 (2020) — State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_576_sb0693t.pdf)
2. **First - State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0693f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Personnel - Maryland Department of Health - Pay Rates and Staffing Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0693t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **122–11** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2020-02-17** Hearing canceled (Finance)
- **2020-02-17** Hearing 3/06 at 12:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 576 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67827571-f959-48cc-a7c3-3d94d2359207`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).