---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Services - Services and Programs for Females"
description: "Juvenile Services - Services and Programs for Females"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 721"
citation: "Maryland HB 721 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juvenile Law", "Committees and Commissions", "Discrimination", "Gender", "Juvenile Facilities", "Juvenile Services", "Department of", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dc8c79f-8e0d-4779-96e5-43db7d3738cf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB721&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "eb778b340eb6f404a2eb5cdf48b62a9a1611d2928ac3cd8592ce8e44c896c1c6"
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 721 (2017) — Juvenile Services - Services and Programs for Females

## 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/hb0721f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {502117/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 653 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dc8c79f-8e0d-4779-96e5-43db7d3738cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).