---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Assessment of Services at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Chestertown"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Assessment of Services at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Chestertown"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1010"
citation: "Maryland SB 1010 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Committees and Commissions", "Eastern Shore", "Examinations", "Health Care Commission", "Health Care Facilities", "Reports", "State Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hershey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6bd0290-7fca-4667-b687-1ea0c65f4d62"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1010&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "559ea1fa494e84c8ab42802b2defb0417f0a3333f7e5441bb258d740fc72c17f"
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 1010 (2019) — Maryland Health Care Commission - Assessment of Services at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Chestertown

## 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/sb/sb1010f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hershey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Rereferred to Finance
- **2019-03-04** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-25** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6bd0290-7fca-4667-b687-1ea0c65f4d62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).