---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
description: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1553"
citation: "Maryland HB 1553 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Emergency Bills", "Health", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1553&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ea8bec82ae7f5b8677aec5c718670ad0ad460ce4e67d88dd554adace5af9f6a5"
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 1553 (2017) — Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period

## 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/hb1553t.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cullison — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {446888/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).