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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies"
description: "Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1563"
citation: "Maryland HB 1563 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaufman", "Kipke", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Speaker", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-13"
last_action: "2026-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/239a84b2-a31d-4000-a7c7-3c001cd98b50"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1563?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "fd9b72b9b86f74b9e04c054f2a7cda10cb63aa105a16757543710123bbe09017"
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 HB 1563 (2026) — Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_165_hb1563t.pdf)
2. **First - Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1563f.pdf)
3. **Third - Emergency Room Services and Post-Acute Care - Coverage and Facility Studies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1563t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1330** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-13** First Reading Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-20** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/239a84b2-a31d-4000-a7c7-3c001cd98b50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).