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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' Compensation - Self-Insured Employers - Suspected Fraud Reporting"
+description: "Workers' Compensation - Self-Insured Employers - Suspected Fraud Reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1499"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1499 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Caroline County", "Carroll County", "Civil Actions", "Claims", "Committees and Commissions", "Fraud", "Insurance", "Interest", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Liability", "Notices", "Reports", "Talbot County", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Valderrama"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e437820-bc95-4d1d-b029-3d9f0535ce33"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1499&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "e98347652334910dacb3c544e4d7cdde9fb76f1d4d3b165d20b7a123ccf59b73"
+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 1499 (2018) — Workers' Compensation - Self-Insured Employers - Suspected Fraud Reporting
+
+## 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/hb1499f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {113897/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e437820-bc95-4d1d-b029-3d9f0535ce33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+