---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees"
description: "State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 819"
citation: "Maryland HB 819 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Allen", "Conaway", "Fennell", "Harrison", "Pruski", "Rogers", "Turner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd362717-a995-4ae6-a6dd-fba98d4a6b1c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0819?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "de7b29f89fdb0bc32803450ad4b22daac7771ccf41cc1a594b8e50eee9eb2c4d"
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 819 (2024) — State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_19_hb0819t.pdf)
2. **First - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0819f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0819t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **105–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First Reading Economic Matters and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2024-03-16** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 19 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd362717-a995-4ae6-a6dd-fba98d4a6b1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).