---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Conversion Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Youth Mental Health Protection Act)"
description: "Health Occupations - Conversion Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Youth Mental Health Protection Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1028"
citation: "Maryland SB 1028 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Counselors", "Ethics", "Gender", "Health Occupations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Psychiatrists", "Psychologists", "Sexual Orientation", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Madaleno"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08d2a456-74fc-4175-a303-ed1c7f07e4e3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1028&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8ffdcce8d83b3d661e44604cec93d50f2c90f80ab3adb8a705592af1692fb657"
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 1028 (2018) — Health Occupations - Conversion Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Youth Mental Health Protection Act)

## 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/sb/sb1028f.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor amendment Simonaire /893529/2 — **13–33** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **37–88** (fail) · lower
- Question is on the adp of the favorable, as amended. — **32–14** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **39–81** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **36–86** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **95–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Madaleno — primary (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** Favorable with Amendments {664932/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** Special Order until 3/26 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {664932/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Laid Over (Senator Reilly) Adopted
- **2018-03-27** Committee Amendment Adopted
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted (32-14) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Floor Amendment {893529/2 (Senator Simonaire) Rejected (13-33) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-27** Floor Amendment {453624/1 (Senator Simonaire) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-27** Floor Amendment {263124/1 (Senator Salling) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (34-12) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Floor Amendment {353422/1 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected (39-81) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-04** Floor Amendment {133826/2 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected (37-88) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-04** Floor Amendment {353825/1 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected (36-86) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-04** Motion vote previous question (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (95-27) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 685 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08d2a456-74fc-4175-a303-ed1c7f07e4e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).