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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation"
+description: "Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 216"
+citation: "Maryland HB 216 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Moon", "Moreno", "Pena-Melnyk", "Phillips", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stinnett", "Taylor", "Tomlinson", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-09-23"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/173ef5b9-d5a4-4423-9c82-4d5a5899d1c5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0216?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "6466b36c21e1f8248e2707fdfea9b0c20bca57dc5e501524004f71e4817ee106"
+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 216 (2026) — Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_662_hb0216t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0216f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0216t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Moreno — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Stinnett — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-16** Hearing 1/27 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-23** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/173ef5b9-d5a4-4423-9c82-4d5a5899d1c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+