---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Failure to Report Accidental Personal Injury - Penalty"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Failure to Report Accidental Personal Injury - Penalty"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 867"
citation: "Maryland SB 867 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Accidents", "Claims", "Penalties and Sentences", "Reports", "Time", "Workers' Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a340b2a-b501-447d-b5b1-073af3747939"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB867&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9a65139ba00e461f33f7712e1599983dad3c2f0612c36fd2179aad450a5d4ec4"
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 867 (2017) — Workers' Compensation - Failure to Report Accidental Personal Injury - Penalty

## 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/sb0867f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **108–30** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {637571/1 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 Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (108-30) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a340b2a-b501-447d-b5b1-073af3747939`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).