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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning"
+description: "Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 953"
+citation: "Maryland HB 953 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Public Health", "Elderly", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Care", "Education", "Long-Term Care", "Reports", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-06"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69d162b4-8bed-4ded-9620-cde97a8cc2f0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB953&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "0e4e99352b24150b7047102263007cc5ee05d288a9cc3ec303d734f829bc4db4"
+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 953 (2017) — Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning
+
+## 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/hb0953f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {976287/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {727474/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69d162b4-8bed-4ded-9620-cde97a8cc2f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+