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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: "SB 212"
+citation: "Maryland SB 212 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Cassilly", "Elfreth", "Guzzone", "Kagan", "King", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "Lee", "Ready", "Serafini", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West", "Young", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-16"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7afccef-32aa-4113-a95b-878ff4ad304c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0212?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "bf726c3d4abb2c3fa3c6a7e4635799775389a9b6aafe2797a90320f9b6959f09"
+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 212 (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_120_sb0212t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Law - Assault in the First Degree - Suffocation or Strangulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0212f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0212t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Cassilly — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Lee — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Serafini — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Sydnor — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-15** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 120 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7afccef-32aa-4113-a95b-878ff4ad304c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+