---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
description: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "Maryland HB 240 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Human Relations", "Crimes and Punishments", "Discrimination", "Education", "Ethnic Affairs", "Penalties and Sentences", "Religion", "Threats", "Volunteers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosenberg"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB240&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "646bce09ec783e3dd0b36a0e052c5393796e29a64a62e93bb2b9b5d46d241ea1"
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 240 (2019) — Hate Crimes – Threats

## 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/hb0240f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Attar — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {852217/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (133-2) `passage`
- **2019-03-11** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).