Maryland House Bill 837 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-5)
Status: Passed on May 8 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-05-08 - Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 337
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Altering the purposes of the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; requiring the Program to establish and provide an evidence-based implicit bias training program for health care professionals involved in the perinatal care of patients on or before January 1, 2021; requiring certain health care professionals to complete a certain training on or before January 1, 2022; requiring the Program to offer a certain training to certain health care professionals; etc.

Public Health - Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Implicit Bias Training and Study

Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]	Del. Jheanelle Wilkins [D]	Del. Heather Bagnall [D]	Del. Ben Barnes [D]
Del. Darryl Barnes [D]	Del. Sandy Bartlett [D]	Del. Ned Carey [D]	Del. Alfred Carr [D]
Del. Mark Chang [D]	Del. Brian Chisholm [R]	Del. Brian Crosby [D]	Del. Jessica Feldmark [D]
Del. Diana Fennell [D]	Del. Wanika Fisher [D]	Del. David Fraser-hidalgo [D]	Del. Andrea Harrison [D]
Del. Anne Healey [D]	Del. Shaneka Henson [D]	Del. Seth Howard [R]	Del. Julian Ivey [D]
Sen. Michael Jackson [D]	Del. Anne Kaiser [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]	Del. Mary Lehman [D]
Del. Eric Luedtke [D]	Del. Julie Palakovich Carr [D]	Del. Edith Patterson [D]	Del. Shane Pendergrass [D]
Del. Elizabeth Proctor [D]	Del. Mike Rogers [D]	Del. Veronica Turner [D]	Del. Kriselda Valderrama [D]
Del. Geraldine Valentino-Smith [D]	Del. Jay Walker [D]	Sen. Alonzo Washington [D]	Sen. Ron Watson [D]
Del. Nicole Williams [D]	Del. Pat Young [D]	Del. Matt Morgan [R]	Del. Terri Hill [D]
Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Nicholaus Kipke [R]	Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]	Del. Erek Barron [D]
Del. Ken Kerr [D]	Del. Bonnie Cullison [D]	Del. Steve Johnson [D]	Del. Sid Saab [R]
Sen. Nick Charles [D]

2020-03-17 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2020-03-10 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 138 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-05-08	House	Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 337
2020-03-18	House	Returned Passed
2020-03-17	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2020-03-17	Senate	Second Reading Passed
2020-03-17	Senate	Favorable Adopted
2020-03-17	Senate	Favorable Report by Finance
2020-03-15	Senate	Hearing 3/16 at 10:00 a.m.
2020-03-15	Senate	Hearing canceled
2020-03-15	Senate	Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-03-15	Senate	Hearing canceled
2020-03-13	Senate	Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-03-11	Senate	Referred Finance
2020-03-10	House	Third Reading Passed (138-0)
2020-03-09	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2020-03-09	House	Favorable with Amendments {186380/1 Adopted
2020-03-05	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
2020-02-10	House	Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-03	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	20	1302	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	20	1304	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	20	1305	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0837?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0837f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0837t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0007/hb0837_18638001.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb0837_hgo.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb0837_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/House/0432.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/Senate/0951.pdf