---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 822"
citation: "Maryland HB 822 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9939b8bd-011e-409c-9ad8-ec62382e90c1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0822?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7b34f38c0161f29c0b5036d8596d2f971d84f98142724a81824da9a9ce413f4a"
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 822 (2024) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_846_hb0822t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0822f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Employed Individuals With Disabilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0822t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 846 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9939b8bd-011e-409c-9ad8-ec62382e90c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).