---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)"
description: "Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Maryland HB 1 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Courts", "Emergency Bills", "Family Law", "Legal Aid", "Notices", "Privacy", "Records", "Sexual Offenses", "Statutes of Limitation", "Support of Dependents", "Trials"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-08-15"
last_action: "2018-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a85e6c7d-0127-427b-bc03-0743bdac53e7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "20f7b99fa207dcae6e4402084314b8ece9b14e22f2ca535bc7f35d8ce6e364ab"
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 1 (2018) — Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act)

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0001f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Busch — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Favorable with Amendments {852216/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-01-31** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-01** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-02-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 4 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a85e6c7d-0127-427b-bc03-0743bdac53e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).