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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities"
+description: "Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 498"
+citation: "Maryland HB 498 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-27"
+last_action: "2026-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1bb3140-d69b-41ac-9f53-d5c96e164736"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0498?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "b3c520d24b5d922885ebefb368e80dad41d623b5bf289dfdee0a30c91aa69bc5"
+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 498 (2026) — Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_69_hb0498t.pdf)
+2. **First - Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0498f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Certificate of Need - Intermediate Health Care Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0498t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 498 HB 529 HB 619 HB 747 HB 838 HB 878 HB 975 HB 1002 HB 1389 HB 1420 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **132–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-27** First Reading Health `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2026-02-11** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-02-11** Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-23** Favorable Report by Health `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1bb3140-d69b-41ac-9f53-d5c96e164736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+