---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established"
description: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 569"
citation: "Maryland SB 569 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Chemical Tests", "Comptroller", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "Equipment", "Grants", "Law Enforcement", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sexual Offenses", "State Police", "Department of", "Treasurers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2c82374-0978-4435-83da-b3247a4037fc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB569&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "d8c85887956bd5d0c49e5e3537b28b21c9c04cd83ead40b9bcf25b071d187d82"
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 569 (2019) — Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Established

## 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/sb0569f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/27 at 12:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {838676/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator King) Adopted
- **2019-03-18** Floor Amendment {433229/1 (Senator King) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 509 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2c82374-0978-4435-83da-b3247a4037fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).