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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: "SB 274"
+citation: "Maryland SB 274 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles", "Folden", "James", "Love", "McKay", "Muse", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da21a718-5078-4b9d-b728-be20ffd1fc7c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0274?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "4b585824f6ec9a5cd46bc13b8f6f786debbeefa6c21e9cb29f50a17eec90c437"
+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 274 (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_151_sb0274t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0274f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0274t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Folden — primary (person)
+- James — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- Muse — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Sydnor — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da21a718-5078-4b9d-b728-be20ffd1fc7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+