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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports"
+description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 189"
+citation: "Maryland HB 189 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-10-27"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3473870c-1f7e-4174-a505-176de3edc894"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0189?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e5980844f0961f730f4debfdfb67f926a8b5b6b23e3e8a375994e2fcf5ecc546"
+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 189 (2024) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_865_hb0189e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0189e.pdf)
+3. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Provider Agencies and Personal Care Aides - Reimbursement and Wage Reports (Homecare Workers Employment Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0189f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0189t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **100–32** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **106–30** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **36–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-10-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-12** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 865 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3473870c-1f7e-4174-a505-176de3edc894`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+