---
type: "Bill"
title: "Confidentiality of Juvenile Records - Baltimore City Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice"
description: "Confidentiality of Juvenile Records - Baltimore City Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 985"
citation: "Maryland SB 985 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juvenile Law", "Administrative Agencies", "Baltimore City", "Courts", "Disclosure", "Juvenile Causes", "Law Enforcement", "Liability", "Privacy", "Records", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/580e2f21-2d26-4f06-9a4f-ce1b7509b935"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB985&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "e86b1650eba68720744f124ad6e01692389023ed37fe1b5b860a891c7c7edaf5"
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 985 (2019) — Confidentiality of Juvenile Records - Baltimore City Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice

## 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/sb0985f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hayes — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2019-02-25** Hearing 3/14 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/580e2f21-2d26-4f06-9a4f-ce1b7509b935`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).