---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment"
description: "Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 917"
citation: "Maryland SB 917 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/116b5ea8-fe51-4532-9c70-d654a87edb05"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0917?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5ba2ee7646406eb9a7cdd6a01f73d5603f6cd108f34eaeb91cb96aabaa5f5546"
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 917 (2022) — Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_697_sb0917t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0917f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Care Facilities - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0917t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **93–32** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **29–17** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Rereferred to Finance
- **2022-03-09** Hearing 3/17 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** Motion Laid Over (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
- **2022-03-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-21** 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 3/29 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 697 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/116b5ea8-fe51-4532-9c70-d654a87edb05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).