---
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: "SB 843"
citation: "Maryland SB 843 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ba0e4ac-e8e9-4541-87fe-dcfce9da8109"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0843?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "812e76108ec028937ad524ade6a763a74d5471c0ae3767a5c57a2b91c37d962f"
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 843 (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_283_sb0843t.pdf)
2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0843f.pdf)
3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0843t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** 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
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ba0e4ac-e8e9-4541-87fe-dcfce9da8109`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).