---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback"
description: "Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 973"
citation: "Maryland HB 973 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Buckel", "Conaway", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Miller", "Munoz", "Rose", "Simmons", "Taylor", "Tomlinson", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3684466-b26c-447f-a56d-9cd95e2953c8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0973?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f7294e860cb91b7be4166f774e75687040203730ed2fd85352a74cfb3494df23"
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 973 (2024) — Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_548_hb0973t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0973f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0973t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Munoz — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-10** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-02** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-02** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2024-04-02** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Bartlett, Valentine and Williams)
- **2024-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2024-04-05** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Bartlett, Valentine and Williams)
- **2024-04-05** Motion Reconsider Third Reading (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2024-04-05** Motion Reconsider Amendments (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2024-04-05** Motion Withdraw Amendments (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Senate Recede
- **2024-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 548 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3684466-b26c-447f-a56d-9cd95e2953c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).