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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment"
+description: "Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 786"
+citation: "Maryland HB 786 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Insurance - Health", "Counselors", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Department of", "Health Insurance", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Parents and Guardians", "Public Schools"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f10421da-3450-4829-a6b6-96c2535ba085"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB786&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "ad00de8073ac68851c7b478c8fe5f6e2f60d219bf0278d64f595292c90c60f12"
+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 HB 786 (2017) — Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment
+
+## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0786f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Angel — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Branch — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {745265/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
+- **2017-03-20** Floor Amendment {983327/1 (Delegate Cullison) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {534636/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f10421da-3450-4829-a6b6-96c2535ba085`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+