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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Schools – Students With Sickle Cell Disease – Guidelines"
+description: "Public Schools – Students With Sickle Cell Disease – Guidelines"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 161"
+citation: "Maryland SB 161 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Public Health", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Data", "Diseases", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Department of", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Job Training", "Jurisdiction", "Nurses", "Parents and Guardians", "Private Schools", "Public Employees", "Public Schools", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Students"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-15"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3bed353-c944-42e3-ab2e-853ad9c318a6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB161&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "fcc02e39972ed2dca84ac6619ea0c375796990e74cc88eaf39efeb97911b7986"
+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 SB 161 (2018) — Public Schools – Students With Sickle Cell Disease – Guidelines
+
+## 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/sb/sb0161f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {904037/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {615968/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3bed353-c944-42e3-ab2e-853ad9c318a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+