---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption"
description: "Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 804"
citation: "Maryland SB 804 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Feldman", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Jennings", "Kelley", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1547ad2-7c1c-4789-8507-e8d108562cb6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0804?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6821401eb04ec45e1cfd259a5741cfc09244788c44da1b105462112c853d7e65"
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 804 (2022) — Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_728_sb0804t.pdf)
2. **First - Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0804f.pdf)
3. **Third - Continuing Care at Home - Certificate of Need - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0804t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 728 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1547ad2-7c1c-4789-8507-e8d108562cb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).