---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions"
description: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 328"
citation: "Maryland HB 328 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Boafo", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Lopez", "Palakovich Carr", "Shetty", "Taveras"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f4bf8b2-d657-4904-9b0c-deda38de61a7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0328?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4933bbbbb9a0749ef40a55db6b9ae107a52b95b2c9bba8c479fced45db05cf1a"
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 328 (2024) — Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_959_hb0328e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0328e.pdf)
3. **First - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0328f.pdf)
4. **Third - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0328t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **120–21** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **129–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 959 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f4bf8b2-d657-4904-9b0c-deda38de61a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).