---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities"
description: "Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1564"
citation: "Maryland HB 1564 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bhandari", "Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-07"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee46ea0b-e4e7-467f-81a5-bf6322da3b0a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1564?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "83418e43075e7046cdc3f112944435df8d3edbdbcf66cc4a0d04a64710b8b678"
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 1564 (2020) — Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_488_hb1564t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1564f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Emergency Evaluations - Duties of Peace Officers and Emergency Facilities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1564t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 488 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee46ea0b-e4e7-467f-81a5-bf6322da3b0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).