---
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: "SB 598"
citation: "Maryland SB 598 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Committees and Commissions", "Correction", "Division of", "Equipment", "Health", "Patuxent Institution", "Prisoners", "Records", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b6950ef-1e01-4624-b189-25d30b1afd38"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB598&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0d570828e9249d4f6b9c747756232b5a3fb69e3ec3cc2562463d64f24e1ba4f7"
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 598 (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/sb/sb0598f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {908075/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-13** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b6950ef-1e01-4624-b189-25d30b1afd38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).