---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Threat of Mass Violence"
description: "Criminal Law - Threat of Mass Violence"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Maryland SB 139 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Crimes and Punishments", "Damages", "Emergency Bills", "Penalties and Sentences", "Threats", "Violence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55943840-cd6b-4093-91fb-4051b2762c21"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB139&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a66f89b451cf964ffd7bd02e6c4a712ca81e23cf9fe6e3ca16f909c9204fa50a"
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 SB 139 (2019) — Criminal Law - Threat of Mass Violence

## 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/sb/sb0139f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Floor Amendment {203920/1 (Senator Carozza) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Floor Amendment {783828/1 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 31 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55943840-cd6b-4093-91fb-4051b2762c21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).