---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1315"
citation: "Maryland HB 1315 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Workers' Compensation", "Commerce and Business", "Discrimination", "Insurance", "Workers' Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valderrama"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e480876-4522-4aa1-864b-fd468e5acd72"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1315&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "382167974750fa8cc730f22a43982543e98b81d6e3095e2265add487b1254717"
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 1315 (2017) — Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1315f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {913797/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 264 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e480876-4522-4aa1-864b-fd468e5acd72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).