---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law – Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting Loaded Handgun – Subsequent Offender"
description: "Criminal Law – Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting Loaded Handgun – Subsequent Offender"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1029"
citation: "Maryland HB 1029 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Crimes and Punishments", "Ex-Offenders", "Guns", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "State's Attorneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Branch"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b15a2d8e-4fb7-4ac3-a9fc-6370175971b6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1029&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0fc7cbe32121864bc3a4f3cf61cbf01b0dbca47cc8007b1c8ba9591dbc2dc570"
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 1029 (2018) — Criminal Law – Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting Loaded Handgun – Subsequent Offender

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1029f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–5** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **34–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Branch — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {942916/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-27** Third Reading Passed (130-5) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2018-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments {318476/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Motion Reconsider Committee Amendment {318476/1 (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Committee Amendment {318476/1 Withdrawn
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (34-11) `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 146 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b15a2d8e-4fb7-4ac3-a9fc-6370175971b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).