---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report"
description: "Crimes - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 787"
citation: "Maryland HB 787 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Family Law", "Child Abuse and Neglect", "Crimes and Punishments", "Disclosure", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Reports", "Statutes of Limitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87f3fb84-883c-4de2-90b7-71900999d404"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB787&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "807e7b403b5424d494e320f091d896f644439e4f7dbed0d6ef4192211e9f03a9"
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 787 (2019) — Crimes - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report

## 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/hb0787f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {782517/1 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 with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {858274/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-04** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2019-04-04** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2019-04-04** Delegates Moon, W. Fisher, and Grammer
- **2019-04-05** Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Hough) Adopted
- **2019-04-08** Senate Recede
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 54 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87f3fb84-883c-4de2-90b7-71900999d404`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).