---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations"
description: "Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 625"
citation: "Maryland HB 625 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Appropriations", "Baltimore City", "Budgets", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Ethics", "Evidence", "Governor", "Hearings", "Law Enforcement", "Open Government", "Privacy", "Records", "Reports", "Signatures", "Subpoenas", "Sunset", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clippinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfbe823f-9dce-4af5-8bd4-61b14f342523"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB625&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "7745120726076a6e7c01e977cae27fa2a063db92c23496bbb151940613fe9249"
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 625 (2019) — Baltimore Police Department – Commission to Restore Trust in Policing – Alterations

## 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/hb0625f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clippinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {662816/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfbe823f-9dce-4af5-8bd4-61b14f342523`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).