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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Juvenile Justice Reform Council"
+description: "Juvenile Justice Reform Council"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 856"
+citation: "Maryland SB 856 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety", "Juvenile Law", "Committees and Commissions", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "Juvenile Causes", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Repeate Offenders", "Reports", "Sunset", "Victims"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zirkin"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbfbb232-188e-48dd-b50b-781b8678f150"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB856&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "fc8f02a696ce303e5cae017b8ebfd91d4a70e39c7dc478bbf272d89b0fda4c94"
+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 856 (2019) — Juvenile Justice Reform Council
+
+## 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/sb0856f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zirkin — primary (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- West — 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.
+- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {518475/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-13** Floor Amendment {173023/1 (Senator Smith) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-13** Special Order until later today (Senator Jennings) Adopted
+- **2019-03-13** Floor Amendment {923329/1 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {512615/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbfbb232-188e-48dd-b50b-781b8678f150`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+