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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Safety - Reporting of Hate Crimes"
+description: "Public Safety - Reporting of Hate Crimes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 168"
+citation: "Maryland HB 168 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety", "Commission on Civil Rights", "Crimes and Punishments", "Data", "Discrimination", "Fire Protection", "Law Enforcement", "Reports", "State Police", "Department of"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10cd51d4-8228-4be2-b2d1-fc57fcc669ec"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB168&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "603e3372a4f3d0de20ab7845861c530f909e32da4ad917e36ec08810396b297b"
+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 168 (2019) — Public Safety - Reporting of Hate Crimes
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0168f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - State Police) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
+- **2019-03-27** Hearing 3/28 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 32 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10cd51d4-8228-4be2-b2d1-fc57fcc669ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+