---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Medical Benefits - Payment of Medical Services and Treatment"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Medical Benefits - Payment of Medical Services and Treatment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Maryland SB 194 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Claims", "Committees and Commissions", "Disclosure", "Health", "Insurance", "Notices", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30ccf4eb-5601-4ba3-902a-e80343fed5fd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB194&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "41a0c4036211f24badc3aca6d0f0a83180bc9469b11cdc0556d57317e26399d3"
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 SB 194 (2017) — Workers' Compensation - Medical Benefits - Payment of Medical Services and Treatment

## 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/sb/sb0194f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **128–10** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** Favorable with Amendments {307979/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (128-10) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30ccf4eb-5601-4ba3-902a-e80343fed5fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).