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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation"
+description: "Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 233"
+citation: "Maryland HB 233 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Atterbeary", "Bartlett", "Ciliberti", "Corderman", "Cox", "Grammer", "Griffith", "Hartman", "J. Lewis", "K. Young", "Kerr", "Krimm", "Lopez", "Malone", "McComas", "Pippy", "Shetty", "W. Fisher", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-17"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/476c956f-3572-45f7-a21c-c7fa8f6e51bc"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0233?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "7f632509194f660a2d621b1a09583bc398c6685ffbebfdfbe6ac806d752c0af9"
+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 HB 233 (2020) — Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_119_hb0233t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Law - Assault in the First Degree - Suffocation or Strangulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0233f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0233t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Ciliberti — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Cox — primary (person)
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- J. Lewis — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Krimm — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Malone — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Pippy — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- W. Fisher — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-17** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 119 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/476c956f-3572-45f7-a21c-c7fa8f6e51bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+