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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act"
+description: "Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 869"
+citation: "Maryland HB 869 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Counselors", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Electronic Communication", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Residency", "Social Workers", "Substance Abuse"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["S. Howard"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab8bfc43-b23c-4361-af0e-ac873aabbeaa"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB869&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "3384411364f7c10db81e406cd001be6e2dd8cb5e90783ac4cda7b5cb4f82714b"
+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 869 (2017) — Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act
+
+## 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/hb0869f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- S. Howard — primary (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {326489/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2017-04-06** Hearing 4/06 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 580 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab8bfc43-b23c-4361-af0e-ac873aabbeaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+