---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts - Payment for Jury Service"
description: "Courts - Payment for Jury Service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "Maryland HB 208 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carr", "Crutchfield", "J. Lewis", "Moon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb12e9eb-8467-4546-8692-cfbcb7686ae7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0208?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "47e4f9acd9aaf87e9d3ffa2a5ce33a9f0e771d984376f5afe733d36d959f02a9"
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 208 (2022) — Courts - Payment for Jury Service

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Courts - Payment for Jury Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_545_hb0208t.pdf)
2. **First - Courts - Payment for Jury Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0208f.pdf)
3. **Third - Courts - Payment for Jury Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0208t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **124–4** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carr — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-14** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-14** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 545 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb12e9eb-8467-4546-8692-cfbcb7686ae7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).