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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Guardianship of Disabled Persons - Voluntary Admission to Mental Facility"
+description: "Guardianship of Disabled Persons - Voluntary Admission to Mental Facility"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 33"
+citation: "Maryland HB 33 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Public Health", "Disabilities", "Disclosure", "Examinations", "Forms", "Health Care Facilities", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Rules and Regulations", "State Hospitals"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-08-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/999c8c93-da9d-458b-9c63-3304b3babeea"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB33&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "eda2ff8fcda155aafe0cd11847019e8c125fdcc9b27f8af730bc1c6bad8b261d"
+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 33 (2018) — Guardianship of Disabled Persons - Voluntary Admission to Mental Facility
+
+## 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/hb0033t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-08-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-12** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {976987/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/999c8c93-da9d-458b-9c63-3304b3babeea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+