---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement"
description: "Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 544"
citation: "Maryland HB 544 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Branch", "Carr", "Crutchfield", "Hill", "Kelly", "Moon", "Qi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2611354-915c-415a-af35-b2ca9095f1a4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0544?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "901f1964e8fd921430a37c69dbeb9f60a64c77018d6942d4c721534b38ddb373"
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 544 (2022) — Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_673_hb0544t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0544f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Reporting Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0544t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **103–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Branch — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Hearing 2/17 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-08** Rereferred to Finance
- **2022-04-11** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 673 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2611354-915c-415a-af35-b2ca9095f1a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).