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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights"
description: "Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 301"
citation: "Maryland SB 301 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91d40942-43ac-4ede-9a6e-22d6016b9ca9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB301&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "456749a11c6ea9a15fa4d50249fc6001517fd31e5e1bcf3210cfa76bcdd905de"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0301f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1340** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **460** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91d40942-43ac-4ede-9a6e-22d6016b9ca9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).