---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department"
description: "Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 516"
citation: "Maryland HB 516 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Administrative Agencies", "Auditors and Audits", "Baltimore City", "Communications", "Disclosure", "Examinations", "Law Enforcement", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Notices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fa728e8-0d14-4941-a3e1-deb8e054a082"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB516&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "455a93a9d098becd8373508590dfdcaa3620ed134a7fe42a04d6fd8135affbe9"
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 516 (2019) — Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore Police Department

## 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/hb0516f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Attar — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {414167/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** 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 73 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fa728e8-0d14-4941-a3e1-deb8e054a082`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).