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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workgroup to Study Child Custody Court Proceedings Involving Child Abuse or Domestic Violence Allegations"
+description: "Workgroup to Study Child Custody Court Proceedings Involving Child Abuse or Domestic Violence Allegations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 567"
+citation: "Maryland SB 567 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Law", "Child Abuse and Neglect", "Child Custody", "Committees and Commissions", "Courts", "Domestic Violence", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Reports", "Sunset", "Victims"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19a6cd7a-6eed-42f4-a7f9-9f2782c77086"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB567&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "71fec0c224232d6a82aecc26a6b9afa91d2c348db223c450de10f1f9dd1f0e19"
+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 567 (2019) — Workgroup to Study Child Custody Court Proceedings Involving Child Abuse or Domestic Violence Allegations
+
+## 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/sb0567f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lee — primary (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** Hearing 3/06 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Favorable with Amendments {618476/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-26** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Rereferred to Judiciary
+- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {362914/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
+- **2019-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2019-04-08** Conference Committee Appointed
+- **2019-04-08** Senators Lee, West, and Cassilly
+- **2019-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
+- **2019-04-08** House Recede
+- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 52 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19a6cd7a-6eed-42f4-a7f9-9f2782c77086`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+