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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases"
+description: "Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 293"
+citation: "Maryland HB 293 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Conaway", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Nkongolo", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Pippy", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stinnett", "Taylor"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0293?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "7da5bbe49749117a5e349ab35428854f225464e7459cb86b4e86f6435d4690db"
+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 293 (2025) — Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_150_hb0293t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0293f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0293t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Nkongolo — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Pippy — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Stinnett — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+