---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Common Law Battery"
description: "Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Common Law Battery"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 836"
citation: "Maryland HB 836 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Assault", "Expungement", "Petitions", "Statutes of Limitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e88b0e7e-4a07-4c4b-9a91-882656d1812b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB836&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1938a2e43c7e1f433c0379922e6ca15125c22dc31805b67b7d066ac26c736135"
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 836 (2017) — Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Common Law Battery

## 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/hb0836f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Folden — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {452017/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-17** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **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** Special Order until evening session (Senator King) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e88b0e7e-4a07-4c4b-9a91-882656d1812b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).