---
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: "SB 473"
citation: "Maryland SB 473 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Washington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f1c7731-4863-4c2a-ac74-790817d336b2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0473?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ee83799b0748596ce6adff4cba1888f6bdc3896128574de1b467424f1f30f469"
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 473 (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_574_sb0473t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Leave With Pay - Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0473f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Leave With Pay - Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0473t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **95–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-02-19** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 574 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f1c7731-4863-4c2a-ac74-790817d336b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).