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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance"
+description: "Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 236"
+citation: "Maryland HB 236 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Tomlinson", "Valentine", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-10-10"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16bbbc2d-6248-4940-a072-2da16faee407"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0236?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "7121ea5f3805b99c5a4ef35e60384eb4f66de2168b9e6add097643ab2a42fda6"
+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 236 (2025) — Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_574_hb0236t.pdf)
+2. **First - Peace Orders - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0236f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0236t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Valentine — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-01-16** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/23 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16bbbc2d-6248-4940-a072-2da16faee407`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+