---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits"
description: "Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1002"
citation: "Maryland HB 1002 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-05"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a47fbe50-b6e4-4a8a-87d9-3ea7059b5f6b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1002?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "01f15ca6d40698100a9ae6c1472131b545cbd442686ea73a3cc4de1dd210f1c2"
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 HB 1002 (2021) — Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_49_hb1002e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1002e.pdf)
3. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Revisions and Required Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1002f.pdf)
4. **Third - Unemployment - Insurance Revisions and Special Enrollment Period for Health Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1002t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- (Emerg) — **100–34** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **95–40** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-05** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Ghrist) Adopted
- **2021-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-24** Hearing canceled
- **2021-03-24** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-30** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2021-03-30** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 49 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a47fbe50-b6e4-4a8a-87d9-3ea7059b5f6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).