---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act"
description: "Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 895"
citation: "Maryland HB 895 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/468c2afb-0442-49cc-8919-9e666ca26278"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0895?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7001d1eb26da67d6bdb5096acc8f97085d721c0bc87532db55429bf91a433113"
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 895 (2025) — Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_6_hb0895t.pdf)
2. **First - Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0895f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0895t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Referred Finance Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/468c2afb-0442-49cc-8919-9e666ca26278`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).