---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program – Establishment"
description: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program – Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 703"
citation: "Maryland SB 703 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Appropriations", "Data", "Emergency Medical Services", "Governor", "Grants", "Health", "Department of", "Jurisdiction", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-02"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/450b3c48-2c07-4f4a-ad67-fb8388d30f15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB703&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "dcf1cbf29008246d629d6edd61813e8e0b3b00fdb84962d9e6631e2a11b25681"
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 703 (2018) — Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program – Establishment

## 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/sb0703f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {317974/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Laid Over (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {317974/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-12** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {296783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-5) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 210 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/450b3c48-2c07-4f4a-ad67-fb8388d30f15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).