---
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: "SB 198"
citation: "Maryland SB 198 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Crimes and Punishments", "Death", "Murder", "Penalties and Sentences", "Solicitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ef139e9-dad5-4f0d-b47e-b163eb51d9a6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB198&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "458fb7b9ead9b8cdc439a0eb601883a8237c9f6dc809075514908704e1cebb10"
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 198 (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/sb/sb0198f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/05 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments {118372/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-20** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {372415/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ef139e9-dad5-4f0d-b47e-b163eb51d9a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).