---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Services and Voluntary Placement Agreements – Children and Young Adults – Reports"
description: "Behavioral Health Services and Voluntary Placement Agreements – Children and Young Adults – Reports"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1517"
citation: "Maryland HB 1517 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Children", "Administrative Agencies", "Contracts", "Counties", "Data", "Hospitals", "Human Services", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Minors", "Reports", "Social Services", "Time", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc9a5e28-68e8-44ca-9309-e6d8eddc3f6b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1517&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "1ca16990b142a5b6e32ec8cd6f4b65f99b00b511de374cfcebfd33aba8c9987f"
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 1517 (2018) — Behavioral Health Services and Voluntary Placement Agreements – Children and Young Adults – Reports

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1517f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {466787/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments {697071/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc9a5e28-68e8-44ca-9309-e6d8eddc3f6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).