---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 655"
citation: "Maryland SB 655 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-04"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/363f9a53-50a7-46b4-bcde-4a07c747d957"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0655?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "99e5ec7ebc2a1c3137941591364b997f992318c716b940109cd90c6f6ef4aa13"
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 655 (2022) — Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_653_sb0655t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0655f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Federal Extended Benefits for Long-Term Unemployment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0655t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **97–40** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 653 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/363f9a53-50a7-46b4-bcde-4a07c747d957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).