---
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: "SB 217"
citation: "Maryland SB 217 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Evidence", "Sexual Offenses", "Victims"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3ebde8f-989e-4776-b3b0-308ae7211951"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB217&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "34412d6fd1e4d8fd73ce15a9cb31d30a63763f2a745b3ad27bb1583a94ba9a71"
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 SB 217 (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/sb/sb0217f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {478779/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3ebde8f-989e-4776-b3b0-308ae7211951`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).