---
type: "Bill"
title: "Healthy Aging Program"
description: "Healthy Aging Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 147"
citation: "Maryland HB 147 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly", "Aging", "Department of", "Appropriations", "Elderly Persons", "Gifts", "Grants", "Health", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35d954af-6db8-4ce5-814c-424fc1c21c7d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB147&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "acdd50de6dc36a98c1686a3ee594d99cc7d3391bc03e3a4a51d9ba6b355b772e"
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 147 (2017) — Healthy Aging Program

## 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/hb0147f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **134–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Aging) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/31 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-08** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-09** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-17** Third Reading Passed (134-1) `passage`
- **2017-02-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35d954af-6db8-4ce5-814c-424fc1c21c7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).