---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments"
description: "Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Maryland HB 4 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-10-12"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9b6ae28-2b6f-4732-a839-210036c9cfd1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0004?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "532d8d9324335e9a7758c8331622a3c3fda9e6d7b484fa07348b44de4956a28e"
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 4 (2022) — Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_651_hb0004t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0004f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance – Recovery of Benefits – Refund of Payments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0004t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **125–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-21** Hearing 2/23 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-21** Hearing canceled
- **2022-03-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** Hearing 3/23 at 1:15 p.m.
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 651 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9b6ae28-2b6f-4732-a839-210036c9cfd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).