Maryland assisted suicide bill appears to be dead again.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

I was cleaning up my emails when I came upon an important article by Jack Hogan that was published in the Maryland Daily Record on March 3, 2025.

The Maryland legislature has debated bills to legalize assisted suicide on a nearly annual basis since 2015. According to Hogan, this year's assisted suicide Bill (HB 1328/SB 926) appears to lack support in the Senate. Hogan wrote:

Hours before the Maryland House of Delegates on Monday revived a perennial debate over whether to legalize medical aid in dying, state senators canceled a hearing on the bill, appearing to forgo the debate in their chamber and all but guaranteeing that the measure won’t have a serious chance of becoming law until after the next election cycle.

Aid-in-dying advocates and at least one top House member were initially under the impression that Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will Smith would reschedule the canceled hearing, which was planned for Wednesday.

But top senators didn’t have plans to reschedule, and House Majority Leader David Moon wrote in a text message that he heard the bill was dead in the Senate.

In 2019, the Maryland assisted suicide bill passed in the House by a vote of 74 to 66 but failed in the Senate by a tie vote of 23 to 23.

According to Hogan, since the Senate does not appear to support the assisted suicide bill that it will not be considered in Maryland again until 2026.