---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Recommended Courses in Military Culture"
description: "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Recommended Courses in Military Culture"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 275"
citation: "Maryland HB 275 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Armed Forces", "Continuing Education", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Notices", "Review Boards", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcef9c11-e369-46d7-987d-9ded20a1368e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB275&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1dc5be807ef1892004fc3cb8be477292e0f88e912a93dae773854e84c9c0126c"
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 275 (2017) — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Recommended Courses in Military Culture

## 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/hb0275f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — 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.

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Favorable with Amendments {676889/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcef9c11-e369-46d7-987d-9ded20a1368e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).