---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention"
description: "State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 810"
citation: "Maryland SB 810 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e069f870-eadc-4d12-90a7-e4a6153da6b8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0810?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "67098b30a073f0a1e276210a7c8f0adc1944268c884bc8d0779e2dfda4e040ea"
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 810 (2020) — State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_585_sb0810t.pdf)
2. **First - State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0810f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Highway Administration - Electronic Signs Along Highways - Suicide Prevention** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0810t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldstreicher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-21** Hearing canceled
- **2020-02-21** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 585 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e069f870-eadc-4d12-90a7-e4a6153da6b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).