---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs"
description: "Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 581"
citation: "Maryland HB 581 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ebersole", "Hornberger", "P. Young", "Patterson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef4ebc7b-5bee-4e48-affb-8ee81753b398"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0581?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "45f3e825c7fbc5293e0faeeb07d89fd8e056aa62d17138ffa481a375d68fecd7"
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 581 (2022) — Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_151_hb0581t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0581f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities - Peer Support Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0581t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 581 HB 692 — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- P. Young — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Hearing 3/01 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef4ebc7b-5bee-4e48-affb-8ee81753b398`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).