---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers’ Compensation – Third–Party Actions – Subsequent Injury Fund"
description: "Workers’ Compensation – Third–Party Actions – Subsequent Injury Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1500"
citation: "Maryland HB 1500 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Attorneys' Fees", "Damages", "Insurance", "Prices", "Reimbursement Rates", "Revenue and Taxes", "Unemployment", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valderrama"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f00683c9-b85e-4d6e-aba3-d050e45b23f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1500&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "130b97b623e84d0c8cb0c6474a2743e563c476769a617b5a947534b77b000cb4"
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 HB 1500 (2018) — Workers’ Compensation – Third–Party Actions – Subsequent Injury Fund

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1500f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valderrama — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {393696/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f00683c9-b85e-4d6e-aba3-d050e45b23f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).