---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health – Maternal Mortality Review Program – Recommendations and Reporting Requirement"
description: "Health – Maternal Mortality Review Program – Recommendations and Reporting Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 583"
citation: "Maryland HB 583 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Communications", "Data", "Death", "Demographics", "Ethnic Affairs", "Examinations", "Health", "Health Occupations", "Medical Treatments", "Medical Research", "Minorities", "Pregnancy", "Records", "Reports", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ddb3853-c8d5-45a6-ac15-9a4b379d94e8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB583&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "9987b78979081e9604dd509e61f6e86a5322d3a8afceb2f12dc2039a9d23f8da"
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 583 (2019) — Health – Maternal Mortality Review Program – Recommendations and Reporting Requirement

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0583f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {296882/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 449 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ddb3853-c8d5-45a6-ac15-9a4b379d94e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).