---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures"
description: "Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1635"
citation: "Maryland HB 1635 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Emergency Medical Services", "Emergencies", "Health", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Public Employees", "State Hospitals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morhaim"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6850e749-eae1-497b-bef3-cbfec4472a51"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1635&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "227de6d7f78d31251e45702ba85a9ceb39fb12c2f1f3c8e1c241e75f1057a645"
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 1635 (2018) — Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures

## 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/hb1635f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Morhaim — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — 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 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {686486/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6850e749-eae1-497b-bef3-cbfec4472a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).