---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment"
description: "Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 233"
citation: "Maryland SB 233 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Courts", "Fines", "Health", "Department of", "Hearings", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Reports", "State Hospitals", "Time", "Trials"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92ca7676-4aa5-4add-9c10-c9deb24a9b58"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB233&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "34719a366ba2003252ce00b1ea617b8fe982bd7c6880ba411639da516a48fd4d"
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 233 (2018) — Maryland Department of Health - Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial or Not Criminally Responsible - Commitment

## 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/sb0233f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **113–17** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {858070/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (113-17) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92ca7676-4aa5-4add-9c10-c9deb24a9b58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).