---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations"
description: "Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 847"
citation: "Maryland SB 847 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Appropriations", "Baltimore City", "Budgets", "Committees and Commissions", "Evidence", "Governor", "Law Enforcement", "Public Information", "Records", "Reports", "Subpoenas", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a29151b-c1db-4692-8a58-de4a25765a29"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB847&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "bed840345f11a587a16d40dfb0fa37717ded8a919dec74def4325063ebf2d59a"
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 847 (2019) — Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations

## 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/sb0847f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ferguson — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — 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 2/20 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {198174/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** 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 (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a29151b-c1db-4692-8a58-de4a25765a29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).