---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Organizations – Penalties and Procedure"
description: "Criminal Organizations – Penalties and Procedure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1083"
citation: "Maryland HB 1083 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pippy", "W. Fisher"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5f7b7f0-b6c7-4be1-ba6d-046a99fa68f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1083?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bde8f30897496db6170133f8114eb84b1061c8ae6d88047301d3f71c4626110a"
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 HB 1083 (2020) — Criminal Organizations – Penalties and Procedure

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Criminal Organizations – Penalties and Procedure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_422_hb1083t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Organizations - Penalties, Procedure, and Elements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1083f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Organizations – Penalties and Procedure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1083t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pippy — primary (person)
- W. Fisher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 422 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5f7b7f0-b6c7-4be1-ba6d-046a99fa68f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).