---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Total Disability - Survival of Claim"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Total Disability - Survival of Claim"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 426"
citation: "Maryland SB 426 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Claims", "Disabilities", "Salaries and Compensation", "Workers' Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e07b8c57-866e-4996-8b3a-5d9f787bcd8a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB426&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "2ccd2a4329ed883e5873103e5205320135cc3a455bb0331b32844c9e6c2e76d4"
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 426 (2017) — Workers' Compensation - Permanent Total Disability - Survival of Claim

## 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/sb0426f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** 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 (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e07b8c57-866e-4996-8b3a-5d9f787bcd8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).