republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/sb-476.md

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Bill	Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)	Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	SB 476	Maryland SB 476 (2024)	bill		enacted	A. Washington Administration Augustine Beidle Brooks Charles Corderman Elfreth Ellis Gile Hayes Hershey Hettleman Klausmeier Kramer Lam Mautz McKay President Ready Rosapepe Waldstreicher West	3	13	2	2024-01-22	2024-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0476?ys=2024RS&search=True	2d5eb0761d89322be057c28292ef76cc80e741a2ae30dda4a9be7dc729051c33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 476 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act) (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act) (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 136–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Washington — primary (person)
• Administration — primary (person)
• Augustine — primary (person)
• Beidle — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Corderman — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Ellis — primary (person)
• Gile — primary (person)
• Hayes — primary (person)
• Hershey — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)
• Kramer — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Mautz — primary (person)
• McKay — primary (person)
• President — primary (person)
• Ready — primary (person)
• Rosapepe — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-11 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-15 Referred Economic Matters referral-committee
• 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-04-02 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-03 Returned Passed
• 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).