---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)"
description: "Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1059"
citation: "Maryland SB 1059 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84d1cac3-5808-490b-9b75-d5c1e5165d96"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb1059?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "add1f24cfc0cf7c0b8d3c83ee7f3887f04dd31a0f8d1b7fd2e77106ea6d05afc"
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 1059 (2024) — Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_798_sb1059t.pdf)
2. **First - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb1059f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb1059t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-27** Hearing 3/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84d1cac3-5808-490b-9b75-d5c1e5165d96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).