---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Mortality Rates of African American Infants and Infants in Rural Areas - Study"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Mortality Rates of African American Infants and Infants in Rural Areas - Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 716"
citation: "Maryland HB 716 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Ethnic Affairs", "Health Care Commission", "Legislation", "Minorities", "Minors", "Reports", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lewis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f7c40c4-0d84-4b39-9415-1bc61f1833a1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB716&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "441843d3c08da0149fc82236e51209003ceeb87be29a5d212160b0fad1bf4a3c"
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 716 (2018) — Maryland Health Care Commission - Mortality Rates of African American Infants and Infants in Rural Areas - Study

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0716f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {886589/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f7c40c4-0d84-4b39-9415-1bc61f1833a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).