---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0)"
description: "Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 181"
citation: "Maryland HB 181 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Communications", "Crimes and Punishments", "Death", "Electronic Communication", "Harassment", "Internet", "Libel and Slander", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Minors", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Penalties and Sentences", "Photography", "Pornography", "Privacy", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cardin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/531efcad-9f2e-4f13-9fb8-2d2119dce853"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB181&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5e32baa2dbd2ee39d2ea2e9a86a13d7dd2c5c6097c24afe9b7a277b74db5cbb4"
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 181 (2019) — Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0)

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0181f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cardin — primary (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Attar — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pippy — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {732611/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/531efcad-9f2e-4f13-9fb8-2d2119dce853`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).