---
type: "Bill"
title: "Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors"
description: "Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 978"
citation: "Maryland SB 978 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82e89b1f-d202-4008-98ab-c2cf10c18af4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0978?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "68462013e43f30a5cd77d8d21b567f2129b473379a55ad8368aaffb7179a1bf5"
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 978 (2022) — Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_198_sb0978t.pdf)
2. **First - Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0978f.pdf)
3. **Third - Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Lease Authorization and Alterations to Board of Governors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0978t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **127–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2022-03-04** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-18** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82e89b1f-d202-4008-98ab-c2cf10c18af4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).