---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 48"
citation: "Maryland SB 48 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Correctional Officers", "Disabilities", "Health", "State Employees", "Time", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-11-08"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7eaece7b-8c32-4abd-9761-eb5b9b8f4818"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB48&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "f7043351b4c33a65b7cd2e7cfa042a9e03917e768b4fe4dfffc9826ab155950f"
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 48 (2018) — Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers

## 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/sb/sb0048f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mathias — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-08** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-16** Favorable with Amendments {877971/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-21** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (132-1) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7eaece7b-8c32-4abd-9761-eb5b9b8f4818`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).