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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting"
+description: "Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1159"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1159 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Armed Forces", "Death", "Ethnic Affairs", "Gender", "Health", "Department of", "Reports", "Sunset", "Veterans", "Vital Records"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["P. Young"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-08"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c79dcf6-9efa-4891-a325-f979395ab0fe"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1159&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "211b72a2fd4a80ee9fc8f8cfd36cd5cc7b32cfacf9d98027c75938450d346b90"
+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 1159 (2018) — Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1159f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- P. Young — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {136680/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c79dcf6-9efa-4891-a325-f979395ab0fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+