---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
description: "Hate Crimes – Threats"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Maryland SB 232 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Human Relations", "Crimes and Punishments", "Discrimination", "Education", "Ethnic Affairs", "Penalties and Sentences", "Religion", "Threats", "Volunteers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/877e47f6-93df-4e9f-b128-4c73e9c2ae51"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB232&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "72dc0ea8afb5d58b5c90b567d182f7b0e2008f060276b0c4589f38bfb88c7cc9"
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 232 (2019) — Hate Crimes – Threats

## 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/sb0232f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/12 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {828679/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** 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 (137-2) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/877e47f6-93df-4e9f-b128-4c73e9c2ae51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).