---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms"
description: "Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 387"
citation: "Maryland SB 387 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee", "Office of the Attorney General", "President"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/859fe5d1-6f22-4d34-b51c-7bde2855bb59"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0387?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f5096d72ad9033c0e0f9bbd50d62feb02c07a532a7891ee7f9071bdf413fd8a3"
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 387 (2022) — Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_19_sb0387t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0387f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Untraceable Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0387t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **92–41** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-15** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2022-03-15** Motion Special Order until 3/16 (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2022-03-16** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2022-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-16** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-25** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-25** Motion Special Order until 3/28 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/859fe5d1-6f22-4d34-b51c-7bde2855bb59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).