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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)"
+description: "Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2"
+citation: "Maryland SB 2 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Law", "Courts", "Family Law", "Legal Aid", "Notices", "Privacy", "Records", "Sexual Offenses", "Statutes of Limitation", "Support of Dependents", "Trials"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-08-15"
+last_action: "2018-02-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf0a0b69-abf3-4a3a-af4b-99870ff69809"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB2&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "6a0ae8b6cc4d0c0adb26793454f3080fd573605afc2e0aac743ad156815832eb"
+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 2 (2018) — Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0002f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with 2 amendments — **21–26** (fail) · upper
+- Favorable adp - ON 2ND RDG — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-08-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-04** Hearing 1/11 at 1:15 p.m.
+- **2018-01-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-26** Favorable with Amendments {488777/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-26** Floor Amendment {923729/1 (Senator Bates) Rejected (21-26) `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-01-26** Floor Amendment {953527/1 (Senator Feldman) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-01-26** Floor Amendment {233522/1 (Senator Benson) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-01-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-01-30** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-02-09** Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (Delegate Dumais) Adopted (132-0)
+- **2018-02-09** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-12** Returned Passed
+- **2018-02-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf0a0b69-abf3-4a3a-af4b-99870ff69809`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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