---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)"
description: "Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1148"
citation: "Maryland HB 1148 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Attar", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Grossman", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Healey", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McComas", "Moon", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Smith", "Solomon", "Stein", "Taveras", "Toles", "Turner", "White", "Wilkins", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-10"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22b2bd2b-f2e2-4be0-8250-617f4b1d4737"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1148?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d2d10e49bad034e50f019422cf72bb1d0adb86fee7a87c7cabf9f5415f7c36f2"
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 1148 (2023) — Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_291_hb1148t.pdf)
2. **First - Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1148f.pdf)
3. **Third - Behavioral Health Care - Treatment and Access (Behavioral Health Model for Maryland)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1148t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 291 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22b2bd2b-f2e2-4be0-8250-617f4b1d4737`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).