---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Maryland SB 216 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-10"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2eb09c4-4711-466b-a6b1-a5706401a558"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0216?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d18d9fef278eeb46b73409d02323e655ef9a6fa3f49830eed80adc91152a8fa6"
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 216 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_78_sb0216t.pdf)
2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0216f.pdf)
3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Failure to Insure - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0216t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **101–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 78 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2eb09c4-4711-466b-a6b1-a5706401a558`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).