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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017"
+description: "Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 967"
+citation: "Maryland SB 967 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Insurance - Health", "Education - Miscellaneous", "Alcoholic Beverages", "Consumer Price Index", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Correctional Institutions", "Drugs", "Education", "State Department of", "Emergency Bills", "Health Care Facilities", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Health Services Cost Review Commission", "Higher Education", "Hospitals", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Public Information", "Public Safety and Correctional Services", "Department of", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Substance Abuse", "Telephones"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a15e7986-8354-4e62-8387-4922dd3f3559"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB967&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "23f0a2baa34d6280130aea6f2efd2e4b207292ca4037128a31e0981446fe8a4b"
+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 967 (2017) — Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017
+
+## 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/sb/sb0967f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Reassigned to Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
+- **2017-02-07** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {317377/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
+- **2017-04-05** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {316883/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-1) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a15e7986-8354-4e62-8387-4922dd3f3559`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+