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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Care Facilities - Comprehensive and Extended Care Facilities - Discharges and Transfers"
+description: "Health Care Facilities - Comprehensive and Extended Care Facilities - Discharges and Transfers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 592"
+citation: "Maryland HB 592 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Agents and Brokers", "Attorney General", "Circuit Courts", "Civil Actions", "Communications", "Continuing Care", "Courts", "Data", "Debt Collection", "Drugs", "Fines", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Housing", "Human Rights", "Licenses", "Medical Assistance", "Medical Treatments", "Names", "Notices", "Nurses", "Parents and Guardians", "Patients", "Penalties and Sentences", "Physicians", "Records", "Social Workers", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Office of the Attorney General) and Atterbeary"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/622815fe-14cb-4ca1-ae52-18e0320fb68f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB592&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "70fecbb9eb0f8bfffd4e9e4a2ff98391ec9fe851ae325150318eafd10ab3a21a"
+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 592 (2019) — Health Care Facilities - Comprehensive and Extended Care Facilities - Discharges and Transfers
+
+## 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/hb0592f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The Speaker (By Request - Office of the Attorney General) and Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — 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)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {396689/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (134-1) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {237372/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/622815fe-14cb-4ca1-ae52-18e0320fb68f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+