---
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: "SB 356"
citation: "Maryland SB 356 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Data", "Death", "Ethnic Affairs", "Examinations", "Health", "Pregnancy", "Records", "Reports", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fabc3cfb-7e3e-48c2-85e2-c6f10b006f4d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB356&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "379c3892c6b4dea7222f49ca8965187d9f0d0ed24e9b4608a26df3396c8c4008"
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 356 (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/sb/sb0356f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {236880/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fabc3cfb-7e3e-48c2-85e2-c6f10b006f4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).