---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information"
description: "Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 445"
citation: "Maryland SB 445 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/097b23ca-5bf7-4018-910f-15e6e6c78e92"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0445?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "0fc2804bee6e1fb654604b5df11f621be774065044146567e4169e815be90962"
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 445 (2026) — Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_181_sb0445t.pdf)
2. **First - Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0445f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0445t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–3** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **124–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-20** Referred Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/097b23ca-5bf7-4018-910f-15e6e6c78e92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).