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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
+description: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 962"
+citation: "Maryland HB 962 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-31"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67071294-cb3c-4eb8-a11e-ee5b4937ab40"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0962?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "48262ab2a79fc3fbb572531eae877376d2ac1c3a3c5e6e93ccf8bee470cba79e"
+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 962 (2025) — Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_479_hb0962e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962e.pdf)
+3. **First - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **120–4** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **134–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ross — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67071294-cb3c-4eb8-a11e-ee5b4937ab40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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