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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Health - Death Certificates - Completion and Cause of Death Report"
+description: "Public Health - Death Certificates - Completion and Cause of Death Report"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1400"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1400 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Health", "Department of", "Physicians", "Reports", "Vital Records"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cardin"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d3d77a5-498f-4094-b0fa-247d8a55934b"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1400&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "da38eee0389e9522608771c9bf406283d401d82917ed5e961483ac068f6fd9d2"
+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 1400 (2019) — Public Health - Death Certificates - Completion and Cause of Death Report
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1400f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-11** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
+- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-21** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-25** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d3d77a5-498f-4094-b0fa-247d8a55934b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+