---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership"
description: "Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 408"
citation: "Maryland HB 408 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Bagnall", "Buckel", "Chang", "D. Jones", "Fair", "Guyton", "Hill", "Howard", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Kipke", "M. Morgan", "Miller", "Munoz", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pippy", "Pruski", "Shetty", "T. Morgan", "Vogel", "Williams", "Wilson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/181d3b56-b1be-4b97-a9bb-daa1664acdd8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0408?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9b818c6f3dc5462481cdc1f0e7943af175419bbc76e62c320d731ea1ff8e539e"
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 408 (2024) — Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_907_hb0408t.pdf)
2. **First - Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0408f.pdf)
3. **Third - Mental Health Law - County Mental Health Advisory Committees - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0408t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Munoz — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 907 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/181d3b56-b1be-4b97-a9bb-daa1664acdd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).