---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Procedure – Incompetency and Criminal Responsibility – Court–Ordered Evaluation"
description: "Criminal Procedure – Incompetency and Criminal Responsibility – Court–Ordered Evaluation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 202"
citation: "Maryland HB 202 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Administrative Agencies", "Assessments", "Courts", "Crimes and Punishments", "Drugs", "Education", "Health", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morhaim"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b15fa7c-59fc-4f14-aba5-0490502d9743"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB202&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4f3de969c6d11015147c063fd3be198036f9d6e76ea35f7917659b5fdc2cd539"
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 202 (2018) — Criminal Procedure – Incompetency and Criminal Responsibility – Court–Ordered Evaluation

## 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/hb0202f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Morhaim — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {672716/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 702 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b15fa7c-59fc-4f14-aba5-0490502d9743`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).