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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Police Officer Certification - Eligibility (Freedom to Serve Act)"
+description: "Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Police Officer Certification - Eligibility (Freedom to Serve Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 853"
+citation: "Maryland SB 853 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety", "Armed Forces", "Certifications", "Immigrants and Citizenship", "Law Enforcement", "Police Training and Standards Commission", "Residency", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f91dff9-2de2-4ff1-a9ae-366617e4ed91"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB853&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "f0839747fa32a563bce7d46683c0deaec8ec46e462b7d86e5f10f858a4a6df31"
+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 853 (2019) — Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Police Officer Certification - Eligibility (Freedom to Serve Act)
+
+## 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/sb0853f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **107–30** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- McCray — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — 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 2/20 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {178772/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (107-30) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f91dff9-2de2-4ff1-a9ae-366617e4ed91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+