---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council - Renaming and Altering Membership and Duties"
description: "Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council - Renaming and Altering Membership and Duties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Maryland SB 216 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabled", "Elderly", "Committees and Commissions", "General Assembly", "Governor", "Health", "Home Care Services", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Names", "Respite Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01f14eaa-b062-42b0-8d19-9f35ae17bf0b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB216&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9deeac3cc0ab1a94d6047a3daced4f836d2b5236089a811c1b8b1913832a9e6f"
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 216 (2017) — Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council - Renaming and Altering Membership and Duties

## 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/sb0216f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Favorable with Amendments {387179/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 67 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01f14eaa-b062-42b0-8d19-9f35ae17bf0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).