republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/sb-698.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	SB 698	Maryland SB 698 (2019)	bill	Elderly Attorneys Continuing Care Mediation	enacted	Kelley	1	14	2	2019-02-04	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/0ef03ba6-635b-43ff-9477-90a50cbd18bf	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB698&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	a7f8f96a1638c1448697bcccde4e00a18e46b9e3e584d262f92fbda7f216e8a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 698 (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 — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 135–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kelley — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-04 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-15 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-15 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-15 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-03-18 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2019-03-19 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-04-01 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-04-05 Third Reading Passed (135-0) passage
• 2019-04-08 Returned Passed
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ef03ba6-635b-43ff-9477-90a50cbd18bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).