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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Continuing Course of Conduct With a Child - Unit of Prosecution"
+description: "Criminal Law - Continuing Course of Conduct With a Child - Unit of Prosecution"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 712"
+citation: "Maryland HB 712 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Minors", "Sexual Offenses", "Time", "Victims"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crutchfield"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e68fc41b-f067-4e17-b018-dbe62821ae31"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB712&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "3c8c35e6f41fd01f3eac5e2e4dfb1b4ac0739ca80da99f51dc4b6da9bd0130e0"
+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 712 (2019) — Criminal Law - Continuing Course of Conduct With a Child - Unit of Prosecution
+
+## 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/hb0712f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {672912/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `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 47 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e68fc41b-f067-4e17-b018-dbe62821ae31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+