---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Maryland SB 216 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-09-16"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad07888-0164-44d6-bc54-369f5a6bff19"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0216?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "36e93f676635d64bc907272ddb7a10d7288d1a2c2835100b0b19aabe793ce7c3"
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 (2026) — Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_130_sb0216t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0216f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Confidentiality of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0216t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-16** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-09** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ad07888-0164-44d6-bc54-369f5a6bff19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).