---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases"
description: "Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 293"
citation: "Maryland HB 293 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Conaway", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Nkongolo", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Pippy", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stinnett", "Taylor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0293?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7da5bbe49749117a5e349ab35428854f225464e7459cb86b4e86f6435d4690db"
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 293 (2025) — Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_150_hb0293t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0293f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0293t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Nkongolo — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).