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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs"
+description: "Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 453"
+citation: "Maryland SB 453 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Administration", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carter", "Charles", "Ellis", "Folden", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Lewis Young", "McKay", "President", "Ready", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-22"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64883413-0fed-4b29-8483-3c386f1335eb"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0453?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "ed52f0345e747c538d7b210f2e6e3804a31de1ac5c3d336c3d793bda31beb58d"
+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 453 (2024) — Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_704_sb0453t.pdf)
+2. **First - Mental Health - Emergency Evaluation and Involuntary Admission Procedures and Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0453f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0453t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Washington — primary (person)
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carter — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Folden — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Lewis Young — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-05** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
+- **2024-04-06** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64883413-0fed-4b29-8483-3c386f1335eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+