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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)"
+description: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1204"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1204 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Hill", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Roberts", "Schindler", "Turner", "Wells", "Wims", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-06"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1204?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e4e9ed4c0b65fd4527462be4235cf2fa22d58a2c56a8c104af6570c555bd10a0"
+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 1204 (2025) — Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_339_hb1204t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1204f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1204t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Schindler — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-07** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/05 at 1:15 p.m.
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+