republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/hb-588.md

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Bill	Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel	Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	HB 588	Maryland HB 588 (2019)	bill	Elderly Attorneys Continuing Care Mediation	enacted	Hettleman	1	13	2	2019-02-04	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB588&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	5d576863439147a3d625ef02dbd2cdbb379329ed65bf838933cc58e61b85810d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 588 (2019) — Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Mediation - Representation by Counsel

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · lower
• No motion given — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
• Barron — cosponsor (person)
• Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
• C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Charles — cosponsor (person)
• Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
• Cullison — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Young — cosponsor (person)
• Kerr — cosponsor (person)
• Krebs — cosponsor (person)
• Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
• Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
• Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
• Saab — cosponsor (person)
• Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-04 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2019-02-08 Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-11 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-12 Favorable with Amendments {596785/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-13 Third Reading Passed (138-0) passage
• 2019-03-14 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-27 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-27 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-03-28 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
• 2019-03-29 Returned Passed
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de643f0c-cef0-4fdc-a31e-969322c0c758. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).