---
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: "SB 851"
citation: "Maryland SB 851 (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: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc476e5d-7940-4bd9-ae5e-289f8d347b3b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB851&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "06431ae45e9d36533c38644bfb965f89a089dddba9d77698496db3dc46d5b258"
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 851 (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/sb/sb0851f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {437370/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** 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
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc476e5d-7940-4bd9-ae5e-289f8d347b3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).