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type: "Bill"
title: "Reporting Abuse to the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and the Office of Health Care Quality"
description: "Reporting Abuse to the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and the Office of Health Care Quality"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "Maryland SB 47 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elderly", "Elder Abuse and Neglect", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Law Enforcement", "Notices", "Nursing Homes", "Ombudsmen", "Privacy", "Reports", "Vulnerable Adults"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-10-11"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20cfb046-6055-4f73-9844-3f741071437b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB47&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "61d347da8332417321141f919d63555cc0b7f64865dbf541c7e55a538e3a3aa2"
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 47 (2017) — Reporting Abuse to the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and the Office of Health Care Quality
## 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/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0047f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **460** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Chair — primary (person)
- Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Aging) — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-10-11** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-10** Hearing 1/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-27** Favorable with Amendments {457970/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-01-31** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {756782/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20cfb046-6055-4f73-9844-3f741071437b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).