---
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: "SB 696"
citation: "Maryland SB 696 (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: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b64310a-0f7b-4453-8e92-3cbc8c28e868"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB696&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "fb0b8ea8e0c4208d2934fa3e54879ae682c6834ae9e6e44860bff4cc8004ff5e"
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 696 (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/sb/sb0696f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — 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.

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {607478/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-08** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {396481/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b64310a-0f7b-4453-8e92-3cbc8c28e868`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).