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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers"
+description: "Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 347"
+citation: "Maryland SB 347 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Carozza", "Eckardt", "Edwards", "Gallion", "Hershey", "Hough", "Jennings", "Ready", "Salling", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-23"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69df8f2f-e4d8-41de-bcc2-a3a13d75b1eb"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0347?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "75d02e57e7c732e9fe0bd06e8a0c95517027607d21ce958022ee88ae6f8db176"
+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 347 (2020) — Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_346_sb0347t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0347f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0347t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — primary (person)
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Hough — primary (person)
+- Jennings — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-23** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-24** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-01-29** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-01-29** Hearing 2/11 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-12** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-14** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 346 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69df8f2f-e4d8-41de-bcc2-a3a13d75b1eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+