---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)"
description: "Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "Maryland SB 323 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "Ferguson", "Hettleman", "Love", "Muse", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Watson", "West"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2026-01-22"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54168023-d9c5-42a5-90d2-4457293fa96c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0323?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "c572bb291ab4d8af4ce6580ddfd04a07b9c40f8d83f08689b265a47a8c620a81"
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 323 (2026) — Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_609_sb0323t.pdf)
2. **First - Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction (Youth Charging Reform Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0323f.pdf)
3. **Racial Equity Impact Note** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/BudgetFiscal/2026RS-SB0323-REIN.pdf)
4. **Third - Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0323t.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion To Special Order by Senator Folden — **14–29** (fail) · upper
- FLA Del. Schmidt /773229/1 — **39–88** (fail) · lower
- Floor Amendment Folden /983221/1 — **16–27** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment Ready /963320/1 — **16–26** (fail) · upper
- FLA Del. Pippy /943025/1 — **38–88** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Buckel /393423/1 Motion to Lay Over Motion to Not Allow — **88–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **92–39** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **32–12** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Buckel /393423/1 — **37–90** (fail) · lower
- Floor Amendment Folden /943023/1 — **14–27** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment Ready /793920/1 — **13–30** (fail) · upper
- FLA Del. Beauchamp /503923/1 — **38–89** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- Ferguson — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Hearing 2/04 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2026-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-03** Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Motion Special Order until 3/5 (Senator Folden) Rejected
- **2026-03-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-26** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2026-03-27** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-06** Motion Laid Over (Delegate Pippy) Adopted
- **2026-04-06** Motion Not Allow Laid Over (Delegate Ruth) Adopted
- **2026-04-06** Floor Amendment (Delegate Buckel) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54168023-d9c5-42a5-90d2-4457293fa96c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).