---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities"
description: "Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Maryland SB 5 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Corderman", "Eckardt", "Edwards", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Feldman", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hayes", "Kelley", "King", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "McCray", "Peters", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Washington", "West", "Young", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-11-01"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f56fd80c-948c-4d20-97d6-e9bed33a0137"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0005?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4267d31da380d53c362f2a5f019f5af52b73a666596359390c001a58de4cb98d"
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 5 (2021) — Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_745_sb0005t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0005f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Implicit Bias Training and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0005t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **100–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **40–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Corderman — primary (person)
- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2021-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Hearing 3/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 745 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f56fd80c-948c-4d20-97d6-e9bed33a0137`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).