---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties"
description: "Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 445"
citation: "Maryland HB 445 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e5444d5-d893-4d07-80e4-a373dbc7415b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0445?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5f7a49f3b47046935df121dd0cb2f8789b3f4786330a0bbec90b6e58831e4f6f"
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 445 (2025) — Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_161_hb0445e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0445e.pdf)
3. **First - Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0445f.pdf)
4. **Third - Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0445t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **129–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 161 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e5444d5-d893-4d07-80e4-a373dbc7415b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).