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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: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
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description: "Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "SB 476"
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citation: "Maryland SB 476 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Charles", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Hettleman", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-01-22"
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last_action: "2024-04-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0476?ys=2024RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "2d5eb0761d89322be057c28292ef76cc80e741a2ae30dda4a9be7dc729051c33"
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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 SB 476 (2024) — Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)
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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. **Chapter - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_14_sb0476t.pdf)
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2. **First - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476f.pdf)
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3. **Third - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0476t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
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- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- A. Washington — primary (person)
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- Administration — primary (person)
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- Augustine — primary (person)
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- Beidle — primary (person)
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- Brooks — primary (person)
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- Charles — primary (person)
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- Corderman — primary (person)
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- Elfreth — primary (person)
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- Ellis — primary (person)
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- Gile — primary (person)
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- Hayes — primary (person)
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- Hershey — primary (person)
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- Hettleman — primary (person)
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- Klausmeier — primary (person)
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- Kramer — primary (person)
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- Lam — primary (person)
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- Mautz — primary (person)
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- McKay — primary (person)
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- President — primary (person)
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- Ready — primary (person)
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- Rosapepe — primary (person)
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- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
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- West — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-02** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2024-03-15** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
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- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
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- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 `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/a5d56cd5-8036-4cec-9db2-2b0b9daeb5f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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