---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety – Missing Persons – Information (Eula and Danny’s Law)"
description: "Public Safety – Missing Persons – Information (Eula and Danny’s Law)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1209"
citation: "Maryland HB 1209 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Data", "Elderly Persons", "Electronic Government", "Pedestrians", "State Police", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Proctor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d8e13fc-8cf9-4e7e-bce5-f14ead46602a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1209&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "81973167f1fd0e7a2e075bb180913b729bef8725d04dc186f636946062511969"
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 1209 (2018) — Public Safety – Missing Persons – Information (Eula and Danny’s Law)

## 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/hb1209f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Proctor — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {512815/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Motion two readings same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 502 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d8e13fc-8cf9-4e7e-bce5-f14ead46602a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).