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type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Employer Determinations - Process and Appeal Rights"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Employer Determinations - Process and Appeal Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 139"
citation: "Maryland HB 139 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Insurance", "Appeals", "Court of Appeals", "Electronic Communication", "Hearings", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Rules and Regulations", "Time", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/133ff3ba-6afc-4d71-9564-65ab9597f9db"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB139&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "517e707c4102b3ce4390eea05e49fbe567e1a032119c8cd5271931af3ccfb3bc"
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 139 (2017) — Unemployment Insurance - Employer Determinations - Process and Appeal Rights
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0139f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1350** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-18** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 251 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/133ff3ba-6afc-4d71-9564-65ab9597f9db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).