---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 669"
citation: "Maryland HB 669 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pruski"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4843a7d1-ddf4-4457-9c17-dad161ad1d31"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0669?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e75ec6c08f0cd45892c89f0c9c4f6739301b0e053b5354a4b2504642ec787b3a"
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 669 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_282_hb0669t.pdf)
2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0669f.pdf)
3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0669t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 669 HB 980 HB 1476 — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pruski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4843a7d1-ddf4-4457-9c17-dad161ad1d31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).