---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements"
description: "Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1083"
citation: "Maryland HB 1083 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Fair", "Fennell", "Guzzone", "Harrison", "Hill", "J. Lewis", "J. Long", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Simmons", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Turner", "Valderrama", "Wilkins", "Williams", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bcd3591-3f89-48aa-a0ea-0a131cd5e7d3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1083?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "724b7aab36c2b7350becfb502ebd49629f3b3912d60818e4f480b24bb86a0f9c"
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 1083 (2025) — Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_687_hb1083t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Department of Health - Workgroup to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1083f.pdf)
3. **Third - Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1083t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/05 at 2:40 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bcd3591-3f89-48aa-a0ea-0a131cd5e7d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).