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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance"
+description: "Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 217"
+citation: "Maryland SB 217 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Evidence", "Sexual Offenses", "Victims"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-19"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3ebde8f-989e-4776-b3b0-308ae7211951"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB217&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "34412d6fd1e4d8fd73ce15a9cb31d30a63763f2a745b3ad27bb1583a94ba9a71"
+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 SB 217 (2017) — Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance
+
+## 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/sb/sb0217f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kelley — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {478779/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-02-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3ebde8f-989e-4776-b3b0-308ae7211951`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+