---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting"
description: "Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 66"
citation: "Maryland SB 66 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Armed Forces", "Death", "Ethnic Affairs", "Gender", "Health", "Department of", "Reports", "Sunset", "Veterans", "Vital Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-09-17"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e92f5674-e4da-49f7-a68b-5e892c3ea9fa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB66&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "f2e95bda04aab3e69304ea30664ea7ec78a9622c85621d70223e84679bef8fd5"
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 66 (2018) — Health – Vital Statistics – Veteran and Armed Services Member Suicide Reporting

## 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/sb0066f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable with Amendments {917570/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** 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
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e92f5674-e4da-49f7-a68b-5e892c3ea9fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).