---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study"
description: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 821"
citation: "Maryland SB 821 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc69934f-2408-4e73-881d-f630f0a3f654"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0821?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6f24c4c14d597423aa07a7efc65dca40f9143c17e77ec32443817b133b2af18b"
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 821 (2024) — Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_797_sb0821t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0821f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Insurance Administration - Professional Employer Organizations - Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0821t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-09** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/16 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `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
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 797 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc69934f-2408-4e73-881d-f630f0a3f654`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).