---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
description: "Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 696"
citation: "Maryland SB 696 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b71f9eb-e112-42a9-a152-4e7dcaf81c38"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0696?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5475b2e09d1bc503f9fba71ee6cfc1339ad4dd6d93a498d228dbd83f8ed6b449"
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 696 (2025) — Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_480_sb0696t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0696f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0696t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b71f9eb-e112-42a9-a152-4e7dcaf81c38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).