---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models"
description: "Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 403"
citation: "Maryland HB 403 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Insurance - Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Disclosure", "Exemptions", "Federal Government", "Fees", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Hearings", "Insurance", "Medical Assistance", "Notices", "Patients", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pendergrass"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/449bbcf4-e9ee-4eae-a3d2-7a3c459969c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB403&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7dc065b22c326d72c348aa18107d32ca494275e891f708254e49aa9054ca5d15"
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 403 (2017) — Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models

## 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/hb0403f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Pendergrass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {976189/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** 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 225 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/449bbcf4-e9ee-4eae-a3d2-7a3c459969c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).