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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department"
+description: "Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 516"
+citation: "Maryland HB 516 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Administrative Agencies", "Auditors and Audits", "Baltimore City", "Communications", "Disclosure", "Examinations", "Law Enforcement", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Notices"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fa728e8-0d14-4941-a3e1-deb8e054a082"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB516&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "455a93a9d098becd8373508590dfdcaa3620ed134a7fe42a04d6fd8135affbe9"
+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 516 (2019) — Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department
+
+## 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/hb0516f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Attar — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
+- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
+- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Wells — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {414167/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** 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 73 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fa728e8-0d14-4941-a3e1-deb8e054a082`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+