---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database"
description: "Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Maryland SB 154 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c032a4a5-de15-400a-8cc7-11ad9f22b1a5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0154?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3488e8c210160965dd85eaa9c761d4e2599cc2feaad6780bb6312701ea6860e4"
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 154 (2023) — Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_297_sb0154t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health – Mental Health Advance Directives – Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0154f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0154t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-05** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c032a4a5-de15-400a-8cc7-11ad9f22b1a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).