republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/sb-528.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

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Bill	Criminal Law - Hate Crimes Group Victim	Criminal Law - Hate Crimes Group Victim	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	SB 528	Maryland SB 528 (2018)	bill	Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes Crimes and Punishments Discrimination Harassment	enacted	Astle	1	14	2	2018-01-29	2018-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/0152f4fa-ead9-4447-bded-71744f98fad8	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB528&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	88f24e6fb94798695092a14c417635cfcc7877e6fd2767c5e4112cde702b6e05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 528 (2018) — Criminal Law - Hate Crimes Group Victim

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 133–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Astle — primary (person)
• Brochin — cosponsor (person)
• Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
• Kelley — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Muse — cosponsor (person)
• Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-29 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Favorable with Amendments {578675/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-08 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-03-09 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-13 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-04-03 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-07 Third Reading Passed (133-4) passage
• 2018-04-09 Returned Passed
• 2018-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0152f4fa-ead9-4447-bded-71744f98fad8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).