Maryland Senate Bill 815 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on May 18 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-05-18 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 156
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring residential treatment facilities to report complaints of sexual abuse and sexual harassment within 24 hours of receiving the complaint to the Behavioral Health Administration, the Office of Health Care Quality, or in the case of a minor, to Child Protective Services; requiring the Office and the Administration to develop and implement a certain reporting system; requiring facilities to develop and implement policies and procedures for responding to complaints of sexual abuse and harassment of patients receiving treatment; etc.

Mental Health Facilities - Sexual Abuse and Harassment - Reporting and Prevention

Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]

2021-04-08 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 139 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-03-19 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-05-18	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 156
2021-04-08	Senate	Returned Passed
2021-04-08	House	Third Reading Passed (139-0)
2021-04-07	House	Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
2021-04-07	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2021-03-20	House	Referred Health and Government Operations
2021-03-19	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2021-03-18	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2021-03-18	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {467970/1 Adopted
2021-03-18	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2021-02-11	Senate	Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
2021-02-09	Senate	First Reading Finance

HB881 (Crossfiled) 2021-05-18 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155
SB818 (Carry Over) 2020-02-07 - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	10	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	10	701	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	10	705	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0815?ys=2021RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0815f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0815t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_156_sb0815t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/amds/bil_0005/sb0815_46797001.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/votes_comm/sb0815_fin.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/votes_comm/sb0815_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/votes/Senate/0553.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/votes/House/1203.pdf