---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Sale of a Minor - Felony"
description: "Criminal Law - Sale of a Minor - Felony"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 481"
citation: "Maryland HB 481 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Commerce and Business", "Human Rights", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mosby"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38dfc794-7039-4791-8c34-feff6a9e7081"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB481&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c6744d49e7411263b5ffec8b4d1331c0ed237ecfeff80e7031ebcbeca641acfb"
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 481 (2019) — Criminal Law - Sale of a Minor - Felony

## 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/hb0481f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mosby — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Attar — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Mangione — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Pippy — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Qi — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-06** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-11** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/19 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38dfc794-7039-4791-8c34-feff6a9e7081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).