---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees"
description: "State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 628"
citation: "Maryland SB 628 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "Gile", "Klausmeier", "Rosapepe"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ddf5454-58c2-4da4-a701-74a588f299a0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0628?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0d3f099ba72e6baa721ee4a49911186bc0d7ed6d684f7ab9dee49e22aad837c1"
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 628 (2024) — State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_18_sb0628t.pdf)
2. **First - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0628f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0628t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **103–33** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Hearing 2/07 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Economic Matters Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **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 18 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ddf5454-58c2-4da4-a701-74a588f299a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).