---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted Living Programs - Licensure Fees"
description: "Assisted Living Programs - Licensure Fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 443"
citation: "Maryland HB 443 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Assisted Living", "Fees", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Licenses", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95761724-96ff-417d-83ca-874d1438003b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB443&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "37850a315617f19949881e3faeb696fd9b81e582ebb23bd86cbe4d735beaed58"
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 443 (2017) — Assisted Living Programs - Licensure Fees

## 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/hb0443f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- West — primary (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** 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
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95761724-96ff-417d-83ca-874d1438003b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).