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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: "SB 698"
+citation: "Maryland SB 698 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elderly", "Attorneys", "Continuing Care", "Mediation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ef03ba6-635b-43ff-9477-90a50cbd18bf"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB698&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "a7f8f96a1638c1448697bcccde4e00a18e46b9e3e584d262f92fbda7f216e8a3"
+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 SB 698 (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/sb/sb0698f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kelley — primary (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ef03ba6-635b-43ff-9477-90a50cbd18bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+