---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Law - Continued Detention - Minimum Age"
description: "Juvenile Law - Continued Detention - Minimum Age"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 659"
citation: "Maryland HB 659 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juvenile Law", "Correctional Institutions", "Crimes and Punishments", "Jurisdiction", "Juvenile Causes", "Juvenile Facilities", "Minors", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shetty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f73e9ef5-9b8b-484b-bfb1-d8b99ee8d3b5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB659&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "df28116136e936cb386e0c0b4820f9c3bb028da2b034194b684e6871ed775df4"
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 659 (2019) — Juvenile Law - Continued Detention - Minimum Age

## 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/hb0659f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shetty — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {112113/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/26 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f73e9ef5-9b8b-484b-bfb1-d8b99ee8d3b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).