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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions"
+description: "Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 595"
+citation: "Maryland HB 595 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Diseases", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fire Protection", "Rescue Squads", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-06"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53f6cff5-7d93-4a85-8f0d-3a2dda728511"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB595&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "5a784f7dcc404e973d83e9ac73b18f278a54667331b7aba9d29b3ef733d0a697"
+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 595 (2019) — Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions
+
+## 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/hb0595f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **123–13** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
+- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
+- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-06** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (123-13) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-21** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-25** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53f6cff5-7d93-4a85-8f0d-3a2dda728511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+