---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Human Trafficking and Prostitution Offenses"
description: "Criminal Law - Human Trafficking and Prostitution Offenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 690"
citation: "Maryland SB 690 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Evidence", "Expungement", "Forfeiture", "Fraud", "Hotels and Motels", "Human Trafficking", "Jurisdiction", "Law Enforcement", "Marriage", "Minors", "Motor Vehicles", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Prostitution", "Real Property", "Records", "Solicitation", "Threats", "Victims", "Violence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e7c2421-2068-48b9-b8bd-95fe40d4b3fd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB690&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "ed518402c7192cc9f045614715415b279133d9a735b92502a2d7efb285bc644e"
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 690 (2019) — Criminal Law - Human Trafficking and Prostitution Offenses

## 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/sb0690f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {382210/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 22 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e7c2421-2068-48b9-b8bd-95fe40d4b3fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).