---
type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning"
description: "Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 953"
citation: "Maryland HB 953 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Public Health", "Elderly", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Care", "Education", "Long-Term Care", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69d162b4-8bed-4ded-9620-cde97a8cc2f0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB953&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "0e4e99352b24150b7047102263007cc5ee05d288a9cc3ec303d734f829bc4db4"
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 953 (2017) — Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning

## 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/hb0953f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Morales — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {976287/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {727474/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69d162b4-8bed-4ded-9620-cde97a8cc2f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).