---
type: "Bill"
title: "Police Training Commission - Training Requirements - Human Trafficking"
description: "Police Training Commission - Training Requirements - Human Trafficking"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1279"
citation: "Maryland HB 1279 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Human Rights", "Police Training Commission", "Safety", "Victims"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2254d55d-fec3-4d65-be7c-d817a0a68d9a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1279&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "de17183b1d7283bcb5bc9eede09eb702faaeadf8eca9fa35f848c8822fd9b91a"
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 HB 1279 (2017) — Police Training Commission - Training Requirements - Human Trafficking

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1279f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Morales — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {442512/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2254d55d-fec3-4d65-be7c-d817a0a68d9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).