---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Administration – Outpatient Civil Commitment Pilot Program – Revisions"
description: "Behavioral Health Administration – Outpatient Civil Commitment Pilot Program – Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 403"
citation: "Maryland SB 403 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Agents and Brokers", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Family Law", "Forms", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Hearings", "Human Rights", "Medical Treatments", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Patients", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Spouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/168b4c25-72ee-44ce-9370-0d96ddfb148a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB403&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "809064ecc72f132c14c80c28cfdec3ef69f4fa2f354ad82986d7b1674ad6c8e5"
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 403 (2019) — Behavioral Health Administration – Outpatient Civil Commitment Pilot Program – Revisions

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0403f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {827075/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 359 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/168b4c25-72ee-44ce-9370-0d96ddfb148a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).