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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes"
+description: "Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 541"
+citation: "Maryland HB 541 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Attar", "Atterbeary", "Bartlett", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "D. Barnes", "Forbes", "Grammer", "Guyton", "Henson", "Hettleman", "Korman", "Lierman", "Lopez", "Love", "Moon", "Palakovich Carr", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Stewart", "Turner", "W. Fisher", "Wilkins", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-27"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5776ca34-fb1e-46d7-b24c-bfee182745c5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0541?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "7ed3f1861da22f497fc5e5008e528642e084afcc6a29094e767fa2bb44cedece"
+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 541 (2020) — Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_237_hb0541t.pdf)
+2. **First - Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0541f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Training Requirements - Hate Crimes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0541t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- D. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Forbes — primary (person)
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Korman — primary (person)
+- Lierman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- W. Fisher — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-27** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 237 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5776ca34-fb1e-46d7-b24c-bfee182745c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+