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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided"
+description: "Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1215"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1215 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Department of", "Human Services", "Department of", "Long-Term Care", "Medical Assistance", "Nursing Homes", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset", "Uncompensated Care"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-08"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/820077ff-da83-42b2-bf56-0b75a09fe601"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1215&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "4557e380d42583419e6652dd93e4d426cdd52a946c13981b2b42d592510054d9"
+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 1215 (2018) — Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1215f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {576487/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {247372/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/820077ff-da83-42b2-bf56-0b75a09fe601`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+