republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/sb-301.md

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Bill	Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights	Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	SB 301	Maryland SB 301 (2019)	bill	Health Care Facilities and Regulation Administrative Agencies Advance Medical Directives Blind Persons Committees and Commissions Communications Consumer Protection Data Deaf Persons Disclosure Discrimination Emergency Medical Services Ethics Examinations Fees Health Health Insurance Health Occupations Hospitals Internet Job Training Language Medical Treatments Medical Research Notices Patients Photography Pregnancy Prices Privacy Recordings Records Reports Safety Signs and Billboards Telecommunications and Information Technology	enacted	Benson	1	15	2	2019-01-30	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/91d40942-43ac-4ede-9a6e-22d6016b9ca9	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB301&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	456749a11c6ea9a15fa4d50249fc6001517fd31e5e1bcf3210cfa76bcdd905de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 301 (2019) — Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Benson — primary (person)
• Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Hayes — cosponsor (person)
• King — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Lam — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Washington — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-30 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-06 Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-25 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Favorable with Amendments {697371/2 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-27 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2019-03-28 First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
• 2019-03-29 Hearing 4/03 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
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91d40942-43ac-4ede-9a6e-22d6016b9ca9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).