---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided"
description: "Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1215"
citation: "Maryland HB 1215 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Department of", "Human Services", "Department of", "Long-Term Care", "Medical Assistance", "Nursing Homes", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset", "Uncompensated Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/820077ff-da83-42b2-bf56-0b75a09fe601"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1215&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4557e380d42583419e6652dd93e4d426cdd52a946c13981b2b42d592510054d9"
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 1215 (2018) — Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1215f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {576487/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {247372/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/820077ff-da83-42b2-bf56-0b75a09fe601`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).