---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students"
description: "Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 329"
citation: "Maryland HB 329 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fair", "Kerr", "Shetty", "Simpson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-01-16"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37e08408-7488-4453-843b-4ad3260fc918"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0329?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "6cfb9f51bd7d7e3d75578b26e8632ffbe513a0525f43ceac41d2560ed582b5b4"
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 329 (2026) — Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_452_hb0329t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0329f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0329t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Fair — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-16** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-13** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37e08408-7488-4453-843b-4ad3260fc918`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).