---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding"
description: "Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 599"
citation: "Maryland SB 599 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Hettleman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/459ebc12-a9e2-4e11-8572-c63ee048a638"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0599?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c322a2bd579520c792f15728fc32ee77338f951cb4822e4592e9aed3dcecbcc3"
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 599 (2025) — Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_666_sb0599t.pdf)
2. **First - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0599f.pdf)
3. **Third - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0599t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **122–16** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **31–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-07** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-17** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/459ebc12-a9e2-4e11-8572-c63ee048a638`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).