---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
description: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 177"
citation: "Maryland HB 177 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-10-17"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b93a50b-ae88-46ed-99a1-702346e44914"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0177?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "37fcde1c95ed917e92798567a07cde24e755a59677c207768c4801bffbc92344"
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 177 (2024) — Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_880_hb0177t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0177f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0177t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **124–8** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Arikan /763524/1 — **36–100** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** 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.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Motion Special Order until 02/28 (Delegate Arikan) Adopted
- **2024-02-28** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 880 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b93a50b-ae88-46ed-99a1-702346e44914`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).