---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act)"
description: "Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 665"
citation: "Maryland SB 665 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Ellis", "Gile", "Griffith", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "Office of the Attorney General", "President", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf09b099-9d7c-4467-b7be-6086f0df6029"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0665?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e635f4b647ba276288df97b7a5fb9d3866b42be30eba5077c482b36ee39fe5a1"
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 665 (2023) — Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_8_sb0665t.pdf)
2. **First - Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse and Neglect** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0665f.pdf)
3. **Third - Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0665t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf09b099-9d7c-4467-b7be-6086f0df6029`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).