---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. - Designation as Employer and Membership"
description: "Maryland Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. - Designation as Employer and Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1592"
citation: "Maryland HB 1592 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horse Racing", "Workers' Compensation", "Assessments", "Licenses", "Racing", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "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: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a8bad8c-2d59-42cb-adbb-1f34611ce54c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1592&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "672d89bc8ea6a49f2ca7ab376af8ce0e2e4e032a75db8d5b64d4a44b6aaec64d"
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 1592 (2018) — Maryland Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. - Designation as Employer and Membership

## 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/hb1592f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {943299/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a8bad8c-2d59-42cb-adbb-1f34611ce54c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).