---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law – Crimes of Violence, Expungement, and Drug Treatment"
description: "Criminal Law – Crimes of Violence, Expungement, and Drug Treatment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 101"
citation: "Maryland SB 101 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Civil Actions", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Courts", "Crimes and Punishments", "Drugs", "Expungement", "Guns", "Parole and Probation", "Petitions", "Records", "Sexual Offenses", "Violence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-11-15"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef8a0556-04e6-4074-8023-ef40a9a00864"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB101&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "ebbb7d4e19f726da34a5dac313cc952f611a2bfe050010bda3ce9c7814372dda"
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 101 (2018) — Criminal Law – Crimes of Violence, Expungement, and Drug Treatment

## 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/sb/sb0101f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **107–31** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **38–7** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Norman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-04** Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable with Amendments {338771/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {492812/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Floor Committee Amendment {752117/1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-07** Floor Amendment {743924/1 (Delegate M. Washington) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-07** Special Order until later this session (Delegate Angel) Adopted
- **2018-04-07** Floor Amendment {253720/1 (Delegate Angel) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (107-31) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (38-7) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 143 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef8a0556-04e6-4074-8023-ef40a9a00864`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).