---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Hate Crimes - Group Victim"
description: "Criminal Law - Hate Crimes - Group Victim"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 700"
citation: "Maryland HB 700 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Crimes and Punishments", "Discrimination", "Harassment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sydnor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/437c7625-bb37-4253-9460-18c2aced92d5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB700&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "cb9d89f6c4a2de875fb846d5b2d80069dcdb0b9d594a6a7168d76ec08112e9e3"
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 700 (2018) — Criminal Law - Hate Crimes - Group Victim

## 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/hb0700f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–6** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sydnor — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (131-6) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/437c7625-bb37-4253-9460-18c2aced92d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).