---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Maternal Mental Health"
description: "Public Health - Maternal Mental Health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 600"
citation: "Maryland SB 600 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Associations", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Education", "Health Care Facilities", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Identification", "Job Training", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Minors", "Patients", "Pregnancy", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0051b14e-00cf-4efe-afd9-96410ca3b018"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB600&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "577fc8e19f06f2d1b37bd94aee42b234af30bb34913d25424088e0180a69737f"
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 600 (2017) — Public Health - Maternal Mental Health

## 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/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0600f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {797378/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-08** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0051b14e-00cf-4efe-afd9-96410ca3b018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).