---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Sepsis Public Awareness Campaign Workgroup"
description: "Public Health - Sepsis Public Awareness Campaign Workgroup"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 574"
citation: "Maryland SB 574 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Advertising", "Committees and Commissions", "Diseases", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48ef5cda-f584-463c-a37a-381ae386c5fb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB574&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "040a32c8b6ab965f5a19b87be5548edb7af3812284b7511c0967eb9509d9a0c8"
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 574 (2018) — Public Health - Sepsis Public Awareness Campaign Workgroup

## 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/sb0574f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — 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.

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {577276/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48ef5cda-f584-463c-a37a-381ae386c5fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).