---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes – Solicitation and Conspiracy to Commit Murder Resulting in Death (Stacey’s Law)"
description: "Crimes – Solicitation and Conspiracy to Commit Murder Resulting in Death (Stacey’s Law)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 493"
citation: "Maryland HB 493 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Crimes and Punishments", "Murder", "Penalties and Sentences", "Solicitation", "Statutes of Limitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valentino-Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3528777-41ce-4b65-92fc-983af5d34580"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB493&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5a5835e4a3fa54a66372af13dad0338cf17ae28785238be847932846470f66ef"
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 493 (2019) — Crimes – Solicitation and Conspiracy to Commit Murder Resulting in Death (Stacey’s Law)

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0493f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {882617/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Motion two readings same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3528777-41ce-4b65-92fc-983af5d34580`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).