---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund"
description: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 293"
citation: "Maryland HB 293 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Forbes", "Healey", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "McComas", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32eca0d7-d6a5-4f55-a117-042872254256"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0293?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ef46a8ad3de1267b0bac90bbd1920cd964e62ebcd3cfeaf395ac836988ad222f"
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 HB 293 (2022) — Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_145_hb0293t.pdf)
2. **First - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0293f.pdf)
3. **Third - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0293t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Hearing 2/02 at 1:30 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32eca0d7-d6a5-4f55-a117-042872254256`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).