---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges"
description: "Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 533"
citation: "Maryland SB 533 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Folden", "James", "M. Jackson", "McKay", "Muse", "Ready", "Salling", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92e57bfc-4021-4b11-9ee9-0d63c0c29d11"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0533?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f91933647769c83fd1b508c19d3738494277031d08cb2981b13775c15a311b96"
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 533 (2025) — Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_493_sb0533e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0533e.pdf)
3. **First - Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0533f.pdf)
4. **Third - Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0533t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bailey — primary (person)
- Folden — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-06** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/07 at 10:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator M. Jackson) Adopted
- **2025-02-18** Motion Special Order until 2/19 (Senator M. Jackson) Adopted
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Motion Special Order until 04/03 (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- **2025-04-07** Substitute Committee Amendment {
- **2025-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92e57bfc-4021-4b11-9ee9-0d63c0c29d11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).