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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study"
+description: "Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 837"
+citation: "Maryland HB 837 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes", "Bagnall", "Barron", "Bartlett", "Carey", "Carr", "Chang", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Crosby", "Cullison", "D. Barnes", "Feldmark", "Fennell", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Harrison", "Healey", "Henson", "Hill", "Howard", "Ivey", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lehman", "Luedtke", "M. Jackson", "Morgan", "P. Young", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "Proctor", "R. Watson", "Rogers", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Turner", "Valderrama", "Valentino-Smith", "W. Fisher", "Walker", "Washington", "Wilkins", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-03"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c187f807-9bca-4f77-a834-fc117ff52d39"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0837?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "f7b60535021a15c219a9a4f1a2a5fb11baa1d693e39af21865855c47d198afea"
+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 837 (2020) — Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_337_hb0837t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0837f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0837t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Carey — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Chang — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Crosby — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- D. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Harrison — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Ivey — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Luedtke — primary (person)
+- M. Jackson — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- P. Young — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- Proctor — primary (person)
+- R. Watson — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
+- W. Fisher — primary (person)
+- Walker — primary (person)
+- Washington — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-10** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-15** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-15** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 10:00 a.m.
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 337 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c187f807-9bca-4f77-a834-fc117ff52d39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+