---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models"
description: "Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 369"
citation: "Maryland SB 369 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Insurance - Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Disclosure", "Exemptions", "Federal Government", "Fees", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Hearings", "Insurance", "Medical Assistance", "Notices", "Patients", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29f25ce2-6d0e-4bcb-ab8f-1ca753732e19"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB369&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6e487e9d2a00da24e8912c1d3ee6dccbb9c88d9990c9755b1248613f53638169"
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 369 (2017) — Maryland Patient Referral Law - Compensation Arrangements Under Federally Approved Programs and Models

## 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/sb0369f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable with Amendments {157077/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29f25ce2-6d0e-4bcb-ab8f-1ca753732e19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).