---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health – Emergency Evaluees and Involuntarily Admitted or Committed Individuals – Procedures"
description: "Health – Emergency Evaluees and Involuntarily Admitted or Committed Individuals – Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 864"
citation: "Maryland SB 864 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Disclosure", "Elderly Persons", "Electronic Communication", "Health Care Facilities", "Hearings", "Legal Aid", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Patients", "Public Employees", "Records", "Veterans", "Vulnerable Adults"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fa288c7-63ad-46ca-b2d1-5cdaa935acf1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB864&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "fe5a80e3c3e0a63b5205533239846499bba752b9b7955fe5a4f8ac550c700ab8"
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 864 (2018) — Health – Emergency Evaluees and Involuntarily Admitted or Committed Individuals – 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/sb/sb0864f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {817279/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2018-04-02** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments {866787/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fa288c7-63ad-46ca-b2d1-5cdaa935acf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).