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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems - Automated External Defibrillators - Study (The Joe Sheya Act)"
+description: "Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems - Automated External Defibrillators - Study (The Joe Sheya Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 427"
+citation: "Maryland SB 427 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Emergency Medical Services", "Emergencies", "Food", "Health", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Inspections", "Reports", "Restaurants", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Weights and Measures"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-27"
+last_action: "2017-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71b5f303-6887-47c5-8800-98deb6bbaf08"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB427&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "99955320e9f36aa0f71fc22922d19830dc6975d16a05691fbd60b872d8c7cd04"
+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 SB 427 (2017) — Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems - Automated External Defibrillators - Study (The Joe Sheya 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/sb/sb0427f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **39–8** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **44–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-27** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-24** Favorable with Amendments {237174/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (39-8) `passage`
+- **2017-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {516184/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (44-2) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 34 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71b5f303-6887-47c5-8800-98deb6bbaf08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+