---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance"
description: "Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 429"
citation: "Maryland HB 429 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Evidence", "Sexual Offenses", "Victims"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be656eb3-ef4a-4acd-b767-066ae400f749"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB429&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "443a456e02ce65d4ccb7e9be2cbfd41db7129a0257a7dac9c5e743c5ecf330a4"
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 429 (2017) — Criminal Law - Sexual Offenses - Physical Resistance

## 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/hb0429f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {272117/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 163 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be656eb3-ef4a-4acd-b767-066ae400f749`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).