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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
+description: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 476"
+citation: "Maryland SB 476 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Charles", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Hettleman", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-22"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0476?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2d5eb0761d89322be057c28292ef76cc80e741a2ae30dda4a9be7dc729051c33"
+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 476 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_14_sb0476t.pdf)
+2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Washington — primary (person)
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-15** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+