---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming"
description: "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Maryland SB 82 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Health", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Names", "Notices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-11-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57c34a48-e127-4775-9341-1357a3ca4936"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB82&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "941e00400a2d26ebfe74ec0c263fffdd7ab0d138083464c0213a976e3cd8ff22"
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 82 (2017) — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming

## 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/sb/sb0082f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-11-02** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-16** Hearing canceled
- **2017-01-16** Hearing 1/17 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2017-01-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-20** Favorable with Amendments {777478/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-01-24** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57c34a48-e127-4775-9341-1357a3ca4936`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).