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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund"
+description: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 675"
+citation: "Maryland HB 675 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Bartlett", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "D. Jones", "Kaufman", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Shetty", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stinnett", "Tomlinson", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b699e9-9926-4d7e-8acc-7fa2593b6386"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0675?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "14c217a184a2355d7dbfe5773b2db15e9e0ec7292207210955dfcee58c6f64e5"
+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 675 (2025) — Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_668_hb0675t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0675f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0675t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- D. Jones — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Stinnett — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** 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
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72b699e9-9926-4d7e-8acc-7fa2593b6386`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+