---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 591"
citation: "Maryland SB 591 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3573189-8e65-43ef-84ee-3b91d25115be"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0591?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3cdf98ba77a660535ec17e5081018d4111815bdad8c7c60fa59393bd7b6c4eb5"
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 591 (2022) — Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_529_sb0591t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0591f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Health Care Commission - Patient Safety Center - Designation and Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0591t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **126–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-11** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 529 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3573189-8e65-43ef-84ee-3b91d25115be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).