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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment"
+description: "Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 233"
+citation: "Maryland SB 233 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Courts", "Fines", "Health", "Department of", "Hearings", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Reports", "State Hospitals", "Time", "Trials"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92ca7676-4aa5-4add-9c10-c9deb24a9b58"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB233&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "34719a366ba2003252ce00b1ea617b8fe982bd7c6880ba411639da516a48fd4d"
+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 233 (2018) — Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment
+
+## 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/sb/sb0233f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **113–17** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {858070/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (113-17) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92ca7676-4aa5-4add-9c10-c9deb24a9b58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+