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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Laboratories - Laboratory Tests and Procedures - Advertising"
description: "Medical Laboratories - Laboratory Tests and Procedures - Advertising"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 495"
citation: "Maryland SB 495 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Advertising", "Certifications", "Disclosure", "Examinations", "Federal Government", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Laboratories", "Medical Research", "Physicians", "Safety", "Solicitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dca9155-c92d-463f-a1ae-4fe3e1711e21"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB495&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "573b93af60460b23f5e513da79b5b2b296ebcbde4d676da060331ab7252b9551"
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 495 (2019) — Medical Laboratories - Laboratory Tests and Procedures - Advertising
## 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/sb0495f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1390** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **460** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {287677/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {626087/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4dca9155-c92d-463f-a1ae-4fe3e1711e21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).