---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation"
description: "State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 639"
citation: "Maryland SB 639 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Elfreth", "Feldman", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hayes", "Kagan", "Kelley", "Lee", "McCray", "Peters", "Rosapepe", "Washington", "Young", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47001d5b-9650-4eb3-8efd-c37881122f74"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0639?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2a4cadbdcb69c5b5816a6a04c88b2e7b0c3b2616d68ef92802dae07a35e0c44f"
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 639 (2020) — State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_572_sb0639t.pdf)
2. **First - State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0639f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Medical, Nursing, and Security Personnel – Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0639t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2020-02-17** Hearing canceled (Finance)
- **2020-02-17** Hearing 3/06 at 12:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 572 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47001d5b-9650-4eb3-8efd-c37881122f74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).