---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard"
description: "Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1139"
citation: "Maryland HB 1139 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-05"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4897df71-b0b8-4393-b32e-fa1487e9aad8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1139?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7dfc45470b1259db07394cd13de732c9b6b2d20d0e1f1458f44cd1d4c98703c0"
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 1139 (2021) — Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_52_hb1139t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1139f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance – Weekly Benefit Amount – Income Disregard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1139t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **109–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carey — 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`
- **2021-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2021-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 52 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4897df71-b0b8-4393-b32e-fa1487e9aad8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).