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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel"
+description: "Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 588"
+citation: "Maryland HB 588 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elderly", "Attorneys", "Continuing Care", "Mediation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB588&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "5d576863439147a3d625ef02dbd2cdbb379329ed65bf838933cc58e61b85810d"
+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 588 (2019) — Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0588f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- No motion given — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {596785/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+