---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission - State Health Plan and Certificate of Need for Hospital Capital Expenditures"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission - State Health Plan and Certificate of Need for Hospital Capital Expenditures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 597"
citation: "Maryland SB 597 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Certifications", "Communications", "Contracts", "Data", "Examinations", "Health", "Health Care Commission", "Hospitals", "Publications", "Public Information", "Time", "Zoning and Planning"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b317d25-7c2c-4ffa-a1e5-7828313effaf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB597&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "f71213ec90ae52cd902f0cd58fa1a14ac858456213141d1402e2ba4cbc8cf7cf"
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 597 (2019) — Maryland Health Care Commission - State Health Plan and Certificate of Need for Hospital Capital Expenditures

## 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/sb0597f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b317d25-7c2c-4ffa-a1e5-7828313effaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).