---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veteran Suicide Prevention - Comprehensive Action Plan"
description: "Veteran Suicide Prevention - Comprehensive Action Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 521"
citation: "Maryland SB 521 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Advertising", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Death", "Federal Government", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Privatization", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Safety", "Sunset", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e090d862-4301-4cc0-85aa-1c89a385a474"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB521&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "516070f005872ce8cef87694c5127a0da45630309e7b59d709ba68eb5d4ee10a"
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 521 (2019) — Veteran Suicide Prevention - Comprehensive Action Plan

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0521f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Gallion — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {517279/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e090d862-4301-4cc0-85aa-1c89a385a474`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).