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---
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: "SB 279"
citation: "Maryland SB 279 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Gallion", "Jennings", "Mautz", "Salling", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe333119-9ff1-4eb0-a7da-88bb7390a8a8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0279?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3d99696976c3e2015588be6382a8680467ba1589d0012fabf987557dabc6b9b7"
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 279 (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_5_sb0279t.pdf)
2. **First - Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0279f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employment and Insurance Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0279t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bailey — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-10** First Reading Finance and Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe333119-9ff1-4eb0-a7da-88bb7390a8a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).