Maryland Senate Bill 550

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2021 - 25% progression
Action: 2021-01-31 - Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishing the Sheila E. Hixson Behavioral Health Services Matching Grant Program for Service Members and Veterans to provide funds to local nonprofit organizations to establish and expand community behavioral health programs to serve members, veterans and their families; requiring the Department of Health to administer the Program and to establish a statewide system to assess the services provided by the nonprofit organizations; authorizing the Governor to provide $2,500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Program; etc.

Sheila E. Hixson Behavioral Health Services Matching Grant Program for Service Members and Veterans – Establishment

Sen. Pamela Beidle [D]	Sen. Malcolm Augustine [D]	Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]	Sen. Brian Feldman [D]
Sen. Delores Kelley [D]	Sen. Nancy King [D]	Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher [D]
Sen. Johnny Salling [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-31	Senate	Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
2021-01-26	Senate	First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation

SB904 (Carry Over) 2020-02-05 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
HB872 (Crossfiled) 2021-02-04 - Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)

Type	Source
Summary	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0550?ys=2021RS
Text	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0550f.pdf