---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services - Establishment"
description: "Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Maryland SB 156 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lewis Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-10-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c6bf93d-0193-482e-93ea-24d59034f0bf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0156?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c5e2d647a5de67fdd279e61bf2714f0980b396a472118298cafd726c4cf3b496"
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 156 (2025) — Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_720_sb0156e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0156e.pdf)
3. **First - Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services – Program Establishment and Insurance Coverage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0156f.pdf)
4. **Third - Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0156t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **102–30** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lewis Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-31** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 720 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c6bf93d-0193-482e-93ea-24d59034f0bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).