---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing and Intentionally Viewing"
description: "Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing and Intentionally Viewing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Maryland SB 226 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salling"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0a89b0f-d04e-4f25-bafe-35989f8e4b7a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0226?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a65c48ebaaa6615131a8a7a0499659dd3577a40615efba28538f439d236c31dc"
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 226 (2023) — Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing and Intentionally Viewing

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing and Intentionally Viewing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_759_sb0226t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing With Intent to View** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0226f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Law - Child Pornography - Accessing and Intentionally Viewing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0226t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Salling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 759 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0a89b0f-d04e-4f25-bafe-35989f8e4b7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).