---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 378"
citation: "Maryland HB 378 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1d94311-c88f-47cf-8400-239d06fd5620"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0378?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ec75220cd5c7ef68ab2dd59f180bff05c0b77e3fc10b1df288d4b8bcae309f2c"
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 378 (2022) — Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_301_hb0378t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0378f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Health Care Commission – Palliative Care Services – Workgroup** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0378t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kerr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-07** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 301 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1d94311-c88f-47cf-8400-239d06fd5620`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).