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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Family Law - Divorce - Domestic Violence Order"
+description: "Family Law - Divorce - Domestic Violence Order"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 293"
+citation: "Maryland HB 293 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Law", "Divorce", "Domestic Violence", "Evidence", "Protection Orders"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-24"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/595585bd-9d54-465a-b8c8-e300ae5c9680"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB293&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "0013f6592677bd8177f87a4be3994d261183f9c00ccd443ce1f0cddb09bac7e9"
+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 293 (2017) — Family Law - Divorce - Domestic Violence Order
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0293f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dumais — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-25** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/595585bd-9d54-465a-b8c8-e300ae5c9680`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+