---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act"
description: "Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 869"
citation: "Maryland HB 869 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Counselors", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Electronic Communication", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Residency", "Social Workers", "Substance Abuse"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Howard"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab8bfc43-b23c-4361-af0e-ac873aabbeaa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB869&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3384411364f7c10db81e406cd001be6e2dd8cb5e90783ac4cda7b5cb4f82714b"
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 869 (2017) — Recovery Residence Residential Rights Protection Act

## 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/hb0869f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- S. Howard — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {326489/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-04-06** Hearing 4/06 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 580 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab8bfc43-b23c-4361-af0e-ac873aabbeaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).