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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database"
+description: "Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 154"
+citation: "Maryland SB 154 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2023-01-17"
+last_action: "2023-05-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c032a4a5-de15-400a-8cc7-11ad9f22b1a5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0154?ys=2023RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "3488e8c210160965dd85eaa9c761d4e2599cc2feaad6780bb6312701ea6860e4"
+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 154 (2023) — Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_297_sb0154t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public Health – Mental Health Advance Directives – Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0154f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0154t.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-17** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-20** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-03-20** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2023-04-05** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c032a4a5-de15-400a-8cc7-11ad9f22b1a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+