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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness"
+description: "Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 214"
+citation: "Maryland HB 214 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Attorneys' Fees", "Certifications", "Commission on Civil Rights", "Communications", "Courts", "Crimes and Punishments", "Disclosure", "Ethics", "Human Services", "Department of", "Immigrants and Citizenship", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Judges", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Law Enforcement", "Liability", "Minors", "Parents and Guardians", "Petitions", "Public Officials", "Records", "State's Attorneys", "Victims", "Witnesses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9241db77-9c23-489f-915d-e03fe02645f5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB214&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "9bb8a4f700adcc101d0cdb168ee8296eee07a446403b095a1c3803b0d1bfb923"
+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 214 (2019) — Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness
+
+## 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/hb0214f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **113–23** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **115–25** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
+- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {602811/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-08** Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
+- **2019-03-08** Floor Amendment {803422/1 (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-12** Third Reading Passed (113-23) `passage`
+- **2019-03-12** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {378173/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (115-25) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 422 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9241db77-9c23-489f-915d-e03fe02645f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+