---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition"
description: "Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1202"
citation: "Maryland HB 1202 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Arentz", "D.E. Davis", "Howard", "M. Fisher", "Miller", "Qi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-07"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7e2b861-1a9c-4424-8cf4-8d336d1ec342"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1202?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "011c284c0a08020b171d2a43c3ee80e00d5a2992811ff2cb88c098eb21e1a822"
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 1202 (2020) — Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_446_hb1202t.pdf)
2. **First - Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1202f.pdf)
3. **Third - Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1202t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adams — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- D.E. Davis — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- M. Fisher — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-12** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 446 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7e2b861-1a9c-4424-8cf4-8d336d1ec342`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).