---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
description: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 962"
citation: "Maryland HB 962 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67071294-cb3c-4eb8-a11e-ee5b4937ab40"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0962?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "48262ab2a79fc3fbb572531eae877376d2ac1c3a3c5e6e93ccf8bee470cba79e"
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 962 (2025) — Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_479_hb0962e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962e.pdf)
3. **First - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962f.pdf)
4. **Third - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0962t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **120–4** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **134–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Rereferred to Finance
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67071294-cb3c-4eb8-a11e-ee5b4937ab40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).