---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement"
description: "Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 938"
citation: "Maryland SB 938 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Feldman", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Jennings", "Kelley", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Reilly"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6b32f64-c622-4c4a-90cc-5620bf2bccb2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0938?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0d376fd4dae565e8dd228f7271516be0b24196ee250c58f0a0053b26322ad600"
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 938 (2020) — Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_489_sb0938t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0938f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0938t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **128–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 489 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6b32f64-c622-4c4a-90cc-5620bf2bccb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).