---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 684"
citation: "Maryland HB 684 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Landis", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Saab"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73f22dc0-3ef4-4174-a74d-059dd1dc6f23"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0684?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0fcf7bfde6daa74654a107af36ee4b3c8dc6fee87c7766e61c81851f8f78e7ce"
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 684 (2022) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_691_hb0684t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0684f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Inpatient Care - Admissions Restrictions (Psychiatric Hospital Admissions Equity Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0684t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 691 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73f22dc0-3ef4-4174-a74d-059dd1dc6f23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).