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Bill	Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law)	Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 97	Maryland HB 97 (2024)	bill		enacted	Alston Bagnall Bhandari Chisholm Cullison Guzzone Hill Hutchinson Kaiser Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez Pasteur Pena-Melnyk R. Lewis Reilly Rosenberg S. Johnson Szeliga Taveras White Holland Woods	4	18	3	2023-10-31	2024-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/63151865-a020-411f-bb66-94f04eedabb8	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0097?ys=2024RS&search=True	f180a503fd96961eeaca8356ef5bafb943f5073f478de8582f402cb6f6b98700	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 97 (2024) — Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law) (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Baby Food - Toxic Heavy Metals - Testing and Labeling (Rudy's Law) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Amend) — 43–1 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 134–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alston — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• M. Morgan — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• Pasteur — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-31 Pre-filed introduction
• 2024-01-10 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-02-06 Hearing canceled
• 2024-02-06 Hearing 2/07 at 2:30 p.m.
• 2024-03-14 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-15 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-18 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-04 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-04-05 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-06 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2024-04-06 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-06 Passed Enrolled
• 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 953 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63151865-a020-411f-bb66-94f04eedabb8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).