---
type: "Bill"
title: "Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment"
description: "Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 475"
citation: "Maryland SB 475 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Beidle", "Brooks", "Carter", "Charles", "Elfreth", "Ferguson", "Gile", "Hester", "Hettleman", "Lam", "M. Washington", "President", "Rosapepe", "Waldstreicher", "West", "Zucker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e25c5c2-83f9-479d-b6da-abda4da8cfb7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0475?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f140a442c9509b8db9ee374fce77bdbaa2cf6edc632f2a318f5cf2c40bbcd013"
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 475 (2024) — Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_707_sb0475e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0475e.pdf)
3. **First - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0475f.pdf)
4. **Third - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0475t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **35–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **101–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carter — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Ferguson — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Motion Special Order until 3/11 (Senator McKay) Adopted
- **2024-03-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e25c5c2-83f9-479d-b6da-abda4da8cfb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).