---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer"
description: "Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 785"
citation: "Maryland SB 785 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e57ff52f-5c25-4f93-86f1-6f3867fd00bf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0785?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4c6f74737c4d28e749f2e1a8aaca5398c94cb72cd09f49e89a3fde70f1ba71a7"
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 785 (2025) — Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_296_sb0785t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0785f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0785t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-18** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e57ff52f-5c25-4f93-86f1-6f3867fd00bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).