---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement"
description: "Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1571"
citation: "Maryland HB 1571 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes", "Bagnall", "Barron", "Bartlett", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carey", "Carr", "Chang", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Crosby", "Feldmark", "Healey", "Henson", "Hill", "Howard", "Johnson", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Lehman", "Lisanti", "Morgan", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "Proctor", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Shetty", "Szeliga", "Valderrama", "Valentino-Smith", "Walker", "Williams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-10"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f965e3be-cfa7-4a4f-ac98-2b4f79395c1f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1571?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bf87dfe57c6998d9755edc62c36ad2173262c665d90d628c70c2f73fdf8d0fa6"
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 1571 (2020) — Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_490_hb1571e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1571e.pdf)
3. **First - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1571f.pdf)
4. **Third - Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1571t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Barnes — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barron — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carey — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lisanti — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- Proctor — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
- Walker — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-10** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2020-03-03** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Passed Enrolled
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 490 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f965e3be-cfa7-4a4f-ac98-2b4f79395c1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).