---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset"
description: "Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 229"
citation: "Maryland SB 229 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-29"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/964f67b5-025e-4ded-8c25-ef3fc1b25760"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0229?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e4d456a1523aece3808501b4262c81ace1810c6aad71eb77fa8b5cb2159d5b8c"
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 229 (2025) — Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_26_sb0229t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0229f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Services Cost Review Commission - User Fee Assessment - Repeal of Sunset** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0229t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **120–12** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/15 at 10:30 a.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/964f67b5-025e-4ded-8c25-ef3fc1b25760`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).