Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1424: Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)
Status: Chaptered, April 22, 2025
Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs connected to a relocation, closure, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government; establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management; authorizing an appointing authority to recruit for certain vacant positions in State government; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Catastrophic Event Account and, Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) FOR the purpose of renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund…
From the enrolled text, April 24, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Catastrophic Event Account and, Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) FOR the purpose of renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connection with a closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances; altering the purpose of the Fund and the eligibility criteria to receive loans from the Fund; authorizing the Maryland Department of Labor to disclose certain information to a third-party vendor for a certain purpose and to forgive a loan from the Fund; expanding the authority of the Attorney General to take certain actions under certain circumstances; increasing the amount the Governor is required to appropriate in the proposed budget each year to the Attorney General to be used for certain purposes; altering a requirement that the Attorney General use a certain appropriation to employ a certain number of attorneys; establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management; authorizing an appointing authority to recruit for certain vacant positions in State government under certain …