---
type: "Bill"
title: "Garrett County - Pretrial Release, Work Release, and Home Detention Programs"
description: "Garrett County - Pretrial Release, Work Release, and Home Detention Programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Maryland SB 217 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Criminal Law - Procedure", "County Commissioners", "Courts", "Education", "Fees", "Garrett County", "Home Detention", "Job Training", "Penalties and Sentences", "Pretrial Detention or Release", "Prisoners", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Sheriffs", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcbc4ceb-3110-4ab1-94eb-9628a69806cd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB217&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a3e48abf491d111ba82a74c93863f0486258712d3307d85f885f3d7343b2221b"
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 SB 217 (2019) — Garrett County - Pretrial Release, Work Release, and Home Detention Programs

## 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/sb/sb0217f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 120 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcbc4ceb-3110-4ab1-94eb-9628a69806cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).