---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions and Reimbursement Payments"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions and Reimbursement Payments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 816"
citation: "Maryland SB 816 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58bd524c-7504-4216-83d1-367cb5c7c3b3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0816?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2c8c3054a657664433620d5ea3ea171c192198b7c7611f5028d7ad7c5c71ae7d"
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 816 (2021) — Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions and Reimbursement Payments

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions and Reimbursement Payments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_48_sb0816e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions and Reimbursement Payments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0816e.pdf)
3. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions - Payment Plans** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0816f.pdf)
4. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Employer Contributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0816t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- (Emerg) — **125–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day (Emerg) — **126–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight — primary (organization)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-29** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Carey) Adopted
- **2021-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2021-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 48 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58bd524c-7504-4216-83d1-367cb5c7c3b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).