---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment"
description: "Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 786"
citation: "Maryland HB 786 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Insurance - Health", "Counselors", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Department of", "Health Insurance", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Parents and Guardians", "Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f10421da-3450-4829-a6b6-96c2535ba085"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB786&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ad00de8073ac68851c7b478c8fe5f6e2f60d219bf0278d64f595292c90c60f12"
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 786 (2017) — Education - Individualized or Group Behavioral Counseling Services - Establishment

## 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/hb0786f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Angel — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** 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 {745265/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
- **2017-03-20** Floor Amendment {983327/1 (Delegate Cullison) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {534636/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f10421da-3450-4829-a6b6-96c2535ba085`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).