---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund"
description: "Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 675"
citation: "Maryland HB 675 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Bartlett", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "D. Jones", "Kaufman", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Shetty", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stinnett", "Tomlinson", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b699e9-9926-4d7e-8acc-7fa2593b6386"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0675?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "14c217a184a2355d7dbfe5773b2db15e9e0ec7292207210955dfcee58c6f64e5"
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 675 (2025) — Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_668_hb0675t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0675f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0675t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** 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
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72b699e9-9926-4d7e-8acc-7fa2593b6386`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).