---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties"
description: "Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 334"
citation: "Maryland SB 334 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folden", "Love", "Muse", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ca07deb-aca4-4405-a92f-6ab15dee613e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0334?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "45c2355a4c8122ee9c0c9cd4202317ebd6f1d3e6ed865d4cdf133bf568660222"
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 334 (2025) — Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_190_sb0334t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0334f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0334t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Folden — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ca07deb-aca4-4405-a92f-6ab15dee613e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).