---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting"
description: "Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "Maryland SB 39 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Public Safety", "Baltimore City", "Census", "Law Enforcement", "Local Government Mandates", "Public Local Laws", "Public Officials", "Reapportionment and Redistricting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-10-09"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2db37237-e19a-4ba4-a62a-17205f7702cf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB39&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "17d1c18a5b548f8bedfd38b55161c682da295d83b9e709d4612cff6e97eb5a4b"
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 39 (2019) — Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting

## 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/sb0039f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable with Amendments {868270/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2db37237-e19a-4ba4-a62a-17205f7702cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).