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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: "SB 144"
+citation: "Maryland SB 144 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Commission on Civil Rights", "Courts", "Crimes and Punishments", "Disabilities", "Disclosure", "Human Services", "Department of", "Immigrants and Citizenship", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Judges", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Law Enforcement", "Liability", "Minors", "Parents and Guardians", "Public Officials", "Records", "State's Attorneys", "Victims", "Witnesses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-21"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03d8a3d8-8a7b-4f1b-8dfc-81e169ba9a00"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB144&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "a8ab95681c5f8be8c7f899fe5ddc59598293772d95744f0aca1b793fe3c8433c"
+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 SB 144 (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/sb/sb0144f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **109–23** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {478078/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (109-23) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03d8a3d8-8a7b-4f1b-8dfc-81e169ba9a00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+