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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)"
+description: "Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 84"
+citation: "Maryland HB 84 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-07-27"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4498697-187e-46fd-8eff-aa87e1eb677b"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0084?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "c28e523084fe7759d444e2f9386348a70c7cda81886b1e3b613f718d1cc89286"
+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 84 (2024) — Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_922_hb0084t.pdf)
+2. **First - Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0084f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers - Sepsis Protocol (Lochlin's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0084t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 84 HB 177 HB 548 HB 938 HB 1125 — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-07-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 922 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4498697-187e-46fd-8eff-aa87e1eb677b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+