---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 817"
citation: "Maryland SB 817 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd899044-d372-4107-a2d1-21d058398b3a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0817?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e2acde034b23527212b7cb60684873943322ea8dec5b3d379a9746e4a33c4a46"
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 817 (2021) — Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_46_sb0817t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0817f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Study on System Reforms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0817t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **108–27** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## 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 Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2021-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 46 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd899044-d372-4107-a2d1-21d058398b3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).