---
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: "SB 308"
citation: "Maryland SB 308 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Child Abuse and Neglect", "Emergency Bills", "Human Rights", "Minors", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cf7d436-288c-416b-b100-7354a894a534"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB308&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5f067dbfbc947454ba1948508dbdd8cef100381214063fa9f8185a90c1f1610a"
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 308 (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/sb/sb0308f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Floor Amendment {673920/1 (Senator Muse) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {512614/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cf7d436-288c-416b-b100-7354a894a534`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).