---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Law – Truancy"
description: "Juvenile Law – Truancy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 319"
citation: "Maryland HB 319 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Juvenile Law", "Courts", "Education", "Minors", "Parents and Guardians", "Penalties and Sentences", "Truancy", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sydnor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89a2318d-992d-449d-aeab-1b8178efd72b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB319&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b3fbe492a7de39acd5a32a4263db8c365a2721293a6f272933b52d3239a9d4e4"
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 319 (2018) — Juvenile Law – Truancy

## 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/hb0319f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sydnor — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {842310/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {738072/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2018-04-05** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-05** Delegates J. Lewis, Atterbeary, and Corderman
- **2018-04-06** Motion Recede (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2018-04-06** Committee Amendment {738072/1 Withdrawn
- **2018-04-06** Senate Recede
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89a2318d-992d-449d-aeab-1b8178efd72b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).