---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Services - Inmates - Menstrual Hygiene Products"
description: "Correctional Services - Inmates - Menstrual Hygiene Products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 797"
citation: "Maryland HB 797 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Committees and Commissions", "Correction", "Division of", "Equipment", "Health", "Patuxent Institution", "Prisoners", "Records", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f05c015-421d-418c-a1fb-28bc649111a7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB797&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4acf601e9704f83f18f328294ec6bcee944c9d6acbcb2377ed30d938abfed0a6"
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 797 (2018) — Correctional Services - Inmates - Menstrual Hygiene Products

## 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/hb0797f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {872818/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f05c015-421d-418c-a1fb-28bc649111a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).