---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming"
description: "Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 461"
citation: "Maryland HB 461 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Alston", "Bagnall", "Fair", "Lehman", "Martinez", "R. Lewis", "Woods", "Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c038f92e-47c6-4dd6-ba9b-a457f90756d7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0461?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7c3128ed97c8c839171a4d07ef5eb951fbab029fae5e1a010bead2f605073920"
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 HB 461 (2024) — Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_915_hb0461t.pdf)
2. **First - Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0461f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health - State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0461t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-06** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/07 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 915 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c038f92e-47c6-4dd6-ba9b-a457f90756d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).