---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - \"NANA\")"
description: "Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - \"NANA\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Maryland HB 251 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly", "Advertising", "Aging", "Department of", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Counties", "Elderly Persons", "Governor", "Grants", "Home Care Services", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/705ff352-6875-449a-8f0c-162171160f4e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "99731488faa64e755880212fe523cd9c6f75178953f4c661c76e4909d921b5db"
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 251 (2019) — Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - "NANA")

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0251f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {926085/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/705ff352-6875-449a-8f0c-162171160f4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).