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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
+description: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1553"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1553 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Emergency Bills", "Health", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-16"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1553&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "ea8bec82ae7f5b8677aec5c718670ad0ad460ce4e67d88dd554adace5af9f6a5"
+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 1553 (2017) — Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period
+
+## 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/hb1553t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-16** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-27** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {446888/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+