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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
+description: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 59"
+citation: "Maryland SB 59 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Beidle", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "McCray", "Ready"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-10-31"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c88f9306-2762-4e0c-b499-45e17c360857"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0059?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "da1ee8e253011322c5c11d7395545d98e4fa784f9b99d1dca316c9a9e79631ad"
+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 59 (2024) — Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_879_sb0059t.pdf)
+2. **First - Safe Sleep for Infants - Awareness and Certification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0059f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0059t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Washington — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- McCray — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-10-31** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-11** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-19** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-25** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-02** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-02** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c88f9306-2762-4e0c-b499-45e17c360857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+