---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave"
description: "State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "Maryland SB 109 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gile"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-10-09"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4573c6e8-6880-412e-9da5-8d98d974a36b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0109?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bebaf102c39a823811888c754f579b2cbac4228447fa6abb67f53507f34734c4"
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 109 (2024) — State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_420_sb0109e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0109e.pdf)
3. **First - State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0109f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Employees - Parental Bereavement Leave** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0109t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gile — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-16** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4573c6e8-6880-412e-9da5-8d98d974a36b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).