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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)"
+description: "Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 17"
+citation: "Maryland SB 17 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carozza", "West"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-10-13"
+last_action: "2021-05-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1952aaa-c2eb-40e4-869a-f2dd21ecbf34"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0017?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "79c0968931b5726fe141671a19b1f1ac36bb6e9abda86037470b46de0c9f6773"
+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 17 (2021) — Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_144_sb0017e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0017e.pdf)
+3. **First - Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0017f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0017t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **132–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-10-13** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-12-28** Hearing 1/19 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2021-03-22** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-22** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-22** Second Reading Passed
+- **2021-03-22** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator King) Adopted
+- **2021-03-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-24** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Passed Enrolled
+- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 144 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1952aaa-c2eb-40e4-869a-f2dd21ecbf34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+