---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel"
description: "Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 588"
citation: "Maryland HB 588 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly", "Attorneys", "Continuing Care", "Mediation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB588&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5d576863439147a3d625ef02dbd2cdbb379329ed65bf838933cc58e61b85810d"
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 588 (2019) — Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel

## 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/hb0588f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (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)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {596785/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** 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 243 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).