---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 476"
citation: "Maryland SB 476 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Charles", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Hettleman", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0476?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2d5eb0761d89322be057c28292ef76cc80e741a2ae30dda4a9be7dc729051c33"
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 476 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_14_sb0476t.pdf)
2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476f.pdf)
3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Corderman — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).