---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Commission on Kidney Disease - Membership - Revisions"
description: "State Commission on Kidney Disease - Membership - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 796"
citation: "Maryland SB 796 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Data", "Diseases", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Medical Treatments", "Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes and Lam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfe26cc2-3ba7-4013-b638-7d95c7994356"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB796&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5c1f54f8707428c28a6af5078fe81514066c8d212fb0363441e314010c8adeb5"
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 796 (2019) — State Commission on Kidney Disease - Membership - Revisions

## 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/sb0796f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hayes and Lam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {836681/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-1) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 505 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfe26cc2-3ba7-4013-b638-7d95c7994356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).