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Delegate proposes assessment on large employers to fund retraining for automation displacements
Summary
Delegate Stewart’s House Bill 314 would require large employers that replace workers with automation to notify the state, pay a one‑time $900 assessment per displaced worker when certain conditions apply, and put proceeds into a dedicated retraining fund; business groups oppose the bill as vague and harmful to competitiveness.
Delegate Stewart introduced House Bill 314 as a three‑part plan designed to make Maryland’s workforce resilient to automation. Stewart told the Economic Matters Committee the measure would require large employers to notify the state when they automate at scale, impose a transition assessment and place all assessment revenue into a retraining fund for displaced workers.
"If a company saves millions in long term payroll by automating, this bill asks them to contribute a tiny fraction of those savings back into the state's human infrastructure," Delegate Stewart said during his testimony. He described the $900 one‑time assessment per displaced…
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