---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Procedure - Charges Against Correctional Officer - Review by State's Attorney"
description: "Criminal Procedure - Charges Against Correctional Officer - Review by State's Attorney"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 166"
citation: "Maryland HB 166 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Baltimore City", "Correctional Officers", "Counties", "Crimes and Punishments", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Law Enforcement", "Municipal Corporations", "Sheriffs", "State's Attorneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25daae12-99a6-42d4-955e-feca203f9163"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB166&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "533b4e56a6b71918d76a6dea3bc80a754b556ea8b08ac0aa79b904f884c4f05f"
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 166 (2017) — Criminal Procedure - Charges Against Correctional Officer - Review by State's Attorney

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0166f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {538779/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25daae12-99a6-42d4-955e-feca203f9163`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).