---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards"
description: "Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1380"
citation: "Maryland HB 1380 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Addison", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boyce", "Cullison", "Davis", "Guzzone", "Harrison", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Wilson", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70c8cd67-a37d-43f3-9a23-06b11905ad34"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1380?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "04a41f58af86db77575179ebef0f4699334420e9a644c6407ed278e607d769e8"
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 1380 (2025) — Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_709_hb1380t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1380f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1380t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–39** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–12** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Miller /263328/1 — **37–97** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Addison — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/21 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Motion Special Order until 03/05 (Delegate Miller) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70c8cd67-a37d-43f3-9a23-06b11905ad34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).