---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)"
description: "Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 632"
citation: "Maryland HB 632 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Child Abuse and Neglect", "Emergency Bills", "Human Rights", "Minors", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb1f6b98-4a26-474f-9b9c-58eb4e36354f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB632&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "8ed532f30d2686dbc35eb6751aac291e8a1c8485e6ac3811465ec85bfa81a887"
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 632 (2017) — Child Abuse - Sex Trafficking (Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2017)

## 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/hb0632f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Adams — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {182612/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb1f6b98-4a26-474f-9b9c-58eb4e36354f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).