---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act - Voluntary Protection Program"
description: "Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act - Voluntary Protection Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 818"
citation: "Maryland SB 818 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Private Sector Labor and Industry", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Federal Government", "Health", "Inspections", "Labor and Industry", "Division of", "Occupational Safety", "Rules and Regulations", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hershey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9837c81c-40c7-41b6-8a0f-4f0c2d7747d2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB818&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3118ab5e01d315c0f70a255c2e266cd9fede77822c2e2fd0a12703fd6b8cab0c"
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 818 (2017) — Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act - Voluntary Protection Program

## 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/sb0818f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hershey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {177077/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Reassigned to Economic Matters
- **2017-03-23** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `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
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9837c81c-40c7-41b6-8a0f-4f0c2d7747d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).