---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Services – Prerelease Study and Report"
description: "Correctional Services – Prerelease Study and Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 821"
citation: "Maryland SB 821 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Correction", "Division of", "Gender", "Housing", "Job Training", "Prisoners", "Reports", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e2a5a0b-2d77-4d64-81a5-52e3ca223d12"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB821&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "7debc717550385bac3dee954e537bcb33c049058ca1f463c34a414feee0acd45"
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 821 (2019) — Correctional Services – Prerelease Study and Report

## 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/sb0821f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Washington — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — 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 2/21 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {118879/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e2a5a0b-2d77-4d64-81a5-52e3ca223d12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).