---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - \"NANA\")"
description: "Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - \"NANA\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 279"
citation: "Maryland SB 279 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly", "Administrative Agencies", "Aging", "Department of", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Elderly Persons", "Governor", "Grants", "Home Care Services", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Public Information", "Rules and Regulations", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16dfaea8-77ee-490b-a3e7-f5eceee78f05"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB279&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "70089db0cd60bf842438a63c6c5f5e8bad8ff25860a74e1f13c938414101da59"
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 279 (2019) — Department of Aging - Grants for Aging-in-Place Programs (Nonprofits for our Aging Neighbors Act - "NANA")

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0279f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {537972/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (129-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16dfaea8-77ee-490b-a3e7-f5eceee78f05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).