---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation"
description: "Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 907"
citation: "Maryland SB 907 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Beidle", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Jackson", "Kramer", "Lam", "Love", "Mautz", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-06"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d1cdb52-68ac-4e92-b9d2-97511932f48b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0907?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "85b209fc1ba77eafd6e4661fc2d767f7f5b52abdf86654dc8d100b4e35aad8cc"
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 907 (2026) — Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_28_sb0907t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0907f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Female Genital Mutilation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0907t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-06** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-20** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-02** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d1cdb52-68ac-4e92-b9d2-97511932f48b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).