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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: "SB 66"
+citation: "Maryland SB 66 (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: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-09-17"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e92f5674-e4da-49f7-a68b-5e892c3ea9fa"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB66&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "f2e95bda04aab3e69304ea30664ea7ec78a9622c85621d70223e84679bef8fd5"
+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 66 (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/sb/sb0066f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-09-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-10** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-06** Favorable with Amendments {917570/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e92f5674-e4da-49f7-a68b-5e892c3ea9fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+