---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Police Department - Reports on Funds"
description: "Baltimore City - Police Department - Reports on Funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Maryland SB 81 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Baltimore City", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "Grants", "Law Enforcement", "Reports", "State Aid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-10-09"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65035afc-715c-4746-90c0-cc6209704f02"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB81&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5397ee48d1b46c53ab04702aad5391aaac25fadd5c0aaaadc0c9d0c772034e4f"
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 81 (2019) — Baltimore City - Police Department - Reports on Funds

## 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/sb0081f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable with Amendments {938477/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/19 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
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65035afc-715c-4746-90c0-cc6209704f02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).