Maryland House Bill 205 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Engrossed on March 14 2025 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-03-17 - Referred Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required or wages due.

Employment Standards – Firefighters – Payment of Wages and Payroll Information

Del. Jared Solomon [D]

2025-03-14 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 134 N: 1 NV: 5 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-17	Senate	Referred Finance
2025-03-14	House	Third Reading Passed (134-1)
2025-03-13	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2025-03-13	House	Committee Amendment {933328/1 Adopted
2025-03-11	House	Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Grammer) Adopted
2025-03-11	House	Favorable Adopted
2025-03-10	House	Favorable Report by Appropriations
2025-01-24	House	Hearing 1/28 at 1:30 p.m.
2025-01-24	House	Hearing canceled
2025-01-17	House	Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2025-01-08	House	First Reading Appropriations
2024-10-31	House	Pre-filed

HB205 (Carry Over) 2025-03-17 - Referred Finance
SB124 (Crossfiled) 2025-01-09 - Hearing 1/16 at 3:00 p.m.
HB900 (Carry Over) 2024-02-27 - Hearing 2/28 at 12:30 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Labor and Employment	3	420	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Local Government	1	207	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0205?ys=2025RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0205f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0205t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/amds/bil_0005/hb0205_93332801.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/votes_comm/hb0205_app.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/votes/House/0524.pdf