---
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: "SB 266"
citation: "Maryland SB 266 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Ethnic Affairs", "Health Care Commission", "Legislation", "Minorities", "Minors", "Reports", "Social Services", "Vital Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3eb42da-4083-469f-8b0f-a6fc03432a9d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB266&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "802825432e798b7e4ed3b7dabac58064a62c0d57269b5e44f53712fce253fd53"
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 266 (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/sb/sb0266f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-16** Favorable with Amendments {577176/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {566086/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 83 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3eb42da-4083-469f-8b0f-a6fc03432a9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).