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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans"
+description: "Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 72"
+citation: "Maryland SB 72 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Commerce and Business", "Discrimination", "Insurance", "Workers' Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2016-10-27"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dee6393-02d6-47d5-8bf1-7065513e6588"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB72&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "b084c8ff7f70e262c5b8fc60eed3903e11327e34adef3223b15768a2e7db85e8"
+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 72 (2017) — Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans
+
+## 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/sb0072f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-10-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-03** Hearing canceled
+- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2017-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-03** Favorable with Amendments {667176/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dee6393-02d6-47d5-8bf1-7065513e6588`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+