---
type: "Bill"
title: "Needs Assessment for Student School-Based Behavioral Health Services"
description: "Needs Assessment for Student School-Based Behavioral Health Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1522"
citation: "Maryland HB 1522 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Private Detectives", "Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b4dcfc5-afc3-41fd-99f2-880913c11473"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1522&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1044c118c02d84c2ce5a95a1148c50109506f6b064e8b909779ca9fa410635a4"
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 1522 (2017) — Needs Assessment for Student School-Based Behavioral Health Services

## 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/hb/hb1522f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **132–8** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **122–15** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {425764/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (132-8) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {454337/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (122-15) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 585 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b4dcfc5-afc3-41fd-99f2-880913c11473`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).