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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights"
+description: "Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 145"
+citation: "Maryland HB 145 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Administrative Agencies", "Advance Medical Directives", "Blind Persons", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Consumer Protection", "Data", "Deaf Persons", "Disclosure", "Discrimination", "Emergency Medical Services", "Ethics", "Examinations", "Fees", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Hospitals", "Internet", "Job Training", "Language", "Medical Assistance", "Medical Treatments", "Medical Research", "Notices", "Patients", "Photography", "Pregnancy", "Prices", "Privacy", "Recordings", "Records", "Reports", "Safety", "Signs and Billboards", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Young"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-21"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac860d9f-d4e0-4d9c-8613-fe4405cb9670"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB145&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "46aff9d7a81a783edc032ebf6465e5b1195ba257b5d0df3d4490306386f4b57a"
+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 145 (2019) — Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights
+
+## 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/hb0145f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 2/06 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {556389/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {967673/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 285 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac860d9f-d4e0-4d9c-8613-fe4405cb9670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+