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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
description: "Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Maryland SB 59 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Beidle", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "McCray", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-10-31"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c88f9306-2762-4e0c-b499-45e17c360857"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0059?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "da1ee8e253011322c5c11d7395545d98e4fa784f9b99d1dca316c9a9e79631ad"
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 59 (2024) — Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_879_sb0059t.pdf)
2. **First - Safe Sleep for Infants - Awareness and Certification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0059f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0059t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1343** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-10-31** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-02** Hearing canceled
- **2024-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-02** Hearing canceled
- **2024-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c88f9306-2762-4e0c-b499-45e17c360857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).