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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures"
+description: "Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1635"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1635 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Emergency Medical Services", "Emergencies", "Health", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Public Employees", "State Hospitals"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morhaim"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6850e749-eae1-497b-bef3-cbfec4472a51"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1635&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "227de6d7f78d31251e45702ba85a9ceb39fb12c2f1f3c8e1c241e75f1057a645"
+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 1635 (2018) — Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1635f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morhaim — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {686486/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6850e749-eae1-497b-bef3-cbfec4472a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+