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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)"
+description: "Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 308"
+citation: "Maryland SB 308 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Law", "Child Abuse and Neglect", "Emergency Bills", "Human Rights", "Minors", "Sexual Offenses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cf7d436-288c-416b-b100-7354a894a534"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB308&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "5f067dbfbc947454ba1948508dbdd8cef100381214063fa9f8185a90c1f1610a"
+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 308 (2017) — Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)
+
+## 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/sb0308f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Floor Amendment {673920/1 (Senator Muse) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {512614/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cf7d436-288c-416b-b100-7354a894a534`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+