---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave"
description: "Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Maryland HB 56 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyce"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-06-19"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ff9bf95-d201-4ee9-aae3-74ad3e590b25"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0056?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2f356ef793f7b3349e5aeb822164cc7df82806046db93800006359160e633c3f"
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 56 (2021) — Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_573_hb0056t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0056f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment – Leave With Pay – Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0056t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **95–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyce — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-19** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Hearing 1/28 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-02-17** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-24** 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
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 573 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ff9bf95-d201-4ee9-aae3-74ad3e590b25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).