---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers"
description: "Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 205"
citation: "Maryland HB 205 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation", "Correctional Officers", "Disabilities", "Health", "State Employees", "Time", "Workers' Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clippinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/145ba17b-a6e8-469f-8bea-f99c46a921c3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB205&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8434b9bb5069b4c8299cbc71b5d80d2dd48ec3dd0c5938dcbb595459a813f714"
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 205 (2018) — Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - State Correctional Officers

## 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/hb0205f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–4** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clippinger — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {873797/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-17** Third Reading Passed (131-4) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 589 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/145ba17b-a6e8-469f-8bea-f99c46a921c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).