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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
+description: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 240"
+citation: "Maryland HB 240 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Human Relations", "Crimes and Punishments", "Discrimination", "Education", "Ethnic Affairs", "Penalties and Sentences", "Religion", "Threats", "Volunteers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rosenberg"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-24"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB240&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "646bce09ec783e3dd0b36a0e052c5393796e29a64a62e93bb2b9b5d46d241ea1"
+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 240 (2019) — Hate Crimes – Threats
+
+## 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/hb0240f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Attar — cosponsor (person)
+- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
+- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {852217/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (133-2) `passage`
+- **2019-03-11** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+