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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established"
+description: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 569"
+citation: "Maryland SB 569 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety", "Chemical Tests", "Comptroller", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "Equipment", "Grants", "Law Enforcement", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sexual Offenses", "State Police", "Department of", "Treasurers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2c82374-0978-4435-83da-b3247a4037fc"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB569&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "d8c85887956bd5d0c49e5e3537b28b21c9c04cd83ead40b9bcf25b071d187d82"
+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 569 (2019) — Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established
+
+## 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/sb0569f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- McCray — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/27 at 12:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {838676/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator King) Adopted
+- **2019-03-18** Floor Amendment {433229/1 (Senator King) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 509 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2c82374-0978-4435-83da-b3247a4037fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+