---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships"
description: "Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 342"
citation: "Maryland SB 342 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maryland Judiciary", "President"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-30"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6739e8ee-4152-480f-978a-a84c790da1e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0342?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a50004b0dafb7c76ae56a3ec5afe66336a7d2322ebb395c45d956c8d28991137"
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 342 (2023) — Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_657_sb0342t.pdf)
2. **First - Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0342f.pdf)
3. **Third - Baltimore County - Circuit Court Judgeships** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0342t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Maryland Judiciary — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-30** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-22** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-02-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6739e8ee-4152-480f-978a-a84c790da1e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).