---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance"
description: "Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 236"
citation: "Maryland HB 236 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Tomlinson", "Valentine", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-10"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16bbbc2d-6248-4940-a072-2da16faee407"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0236?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7121ea5f3805b99c5a4ef35e60384eb4f66de2168b9e6add097643ab2a42fda6"
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 236 (2025) — Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_574_hb0236t.pdf)
2. **First - Peace Orders - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0236f.pdf)
3. **Third - Peace Orders and Criminal Harassment - Intentional Visual Surveillance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0236t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-16** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/23 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16bbbc2d-6248-4940-a072-2da16faee407`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).