---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent"
description: "Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 929"
citation: "Maryland HB 929 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bouchat", "Crutchfield", "Fair", "Simpson", "Tomlinson", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97eb1f25-8a2f-429a-9f68-4abd7570afb1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0929?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e97cc38f7c0ded54254f1509062876033db5439d250596bea5cd541e9e38f549"
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 929 (2025) — Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_538_hb0929t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0929f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0929t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bouchat — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/20 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 538 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97eb1f25-8a2f-429a-9f68-4abd7570afb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).