---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Maryland HB 251 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-18"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9734ebb-5c51-48e9-8ef0-198aa30c728a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0251?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b3907f8e5b5d8907bd2b1d742697f7b04ccabf26a46d9ab5f4139c9cafeb177f"
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 HB 251 (2024) — Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_105_hb0251t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0251f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Covered Employment - Employees of Governmental Entities or Charitable, Educational, or Religious Organizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0251t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **31–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Economic Matters Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-16** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 105 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9734ebb-5c51-48e9-8ef0-198aa30c728a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).