---
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: "SB 669"
citation: "Maryland SB 669 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folden", "Hettleman", "Love", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac35be46-4b8e-4adf-a3f1-c1e2548e2f0f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0669?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a9e0d38ecbd7e5e10ab7ccaa1ed0ad1bf9e7f856e8df735dddead3711be1c438"
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 669 (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_667_sb0669t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0669f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing - Tracking Program and Grant Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0669t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** 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`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac35be46-4b8e-4adf-a3f1-c1e2548e2f0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).