---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition"
description: "Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 245"
citation: "Maryland SB 245 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson", "Lewis Young", "Smith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-01-15"
last_action: "2026-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1898962-ec7b-41df-a83a-c8f581b277e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0245?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "9722a5948501998e2f678fd3a24b312d05a621748553737596f9b851cd3d75b7"
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 245 (2026) — Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_1_sb0245t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0245f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0245t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **32–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **99–38** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Ready /503428/1 — **13–31** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment Sydnor /613221/1 — **33–13** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment Hershey /853125/1 — **14–32** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ferguson — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-15** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Hearing 1/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-01-28** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-01-29** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-01-29** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-01-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-02-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-04** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-02-17** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1898962-ec7b-41df-a83a-c8f581b277e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).