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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
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description: "Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1553"
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citation: "Maryland HB 1553 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Emergency Bills", "Health", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Time"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-02-16"
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last_action: "2017-05-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1553&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
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source_hash: "ea8bec82ae7f5b8677aec5c718670ad0ad460ce4e67d88dd554adace5af9f6a5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 1553 (2017) — Nonprofit Health Entity - Acquisition - Waiver of Waiting Period
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1553t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Cullison — primary (person)
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- Angel — cosponsor (person)
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- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
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- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
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- Hill — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
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- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
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- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
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- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
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- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
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- Miele — cosponsor (person)
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- Morales — cosponsor (person)
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- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
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- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
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- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
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- Platt — cosponsor (person)
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- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
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- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
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- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
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- West — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-16** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-27** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
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- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {446888/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
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- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
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- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
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- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
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- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f06b1ec2-5a9a-4540-8128-de72cbea2fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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