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Bill Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0) Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0) us/states/md Maryland General Assembly 2019 HB 181 Maryland HB 181 (2019)
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Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Communications
Crimes and Punishments
Death
Electronic Communication
Harassment
Internet
Libel and Slander
Mental and Behavioral Health
Minors
Notices
Parents and Guardians
Penalties and Sentences
Photography
Pornography
Privacy
Telecommunications and Information Technology
enacted
Cardin
1 13 2 2019-01-23 2019-04-18 openstates ocd-bill/531efcad-9f2e-4f13-9fb8-2d2119dce853 http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB181&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs 5e32baa2dbd2ee39d2ea2e9a86a13d7dd2c5c6097c24afe9b7a277b74db5cbb4 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Maryland HB 181 (2019) — Criminal Law - Electronic Harassment and Bullying (Grace's Law 2.0)

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 — 470 (pass) · upper
  • On Third Reading — 1370 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Cardin — primary (person)
  • Arikan — cosponsor (person)
  • Attar — cosponsor (person)
  • Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
  • Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
  • Boyce — cosponsor (person)
  • Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
  • Brooks — cosponsor (person)
  • C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
  • Cox — cosponsor (person)
  • Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
  • Grammer — cosponsor (person)
  • Guyton — cosponsor (person)
  • Hartman — cosponsor (person)
  • Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
  • Ivey — cosponsor (person)
  • Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
  • Jones — cosponsor (person)
  • Kerr — cosponsor (person)
  • Kipke — cosponsor (person)
  • Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
  • Krebs — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Malone — cosponsor (person)
  • McComas — cosponsor (person)
  • McKay — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Pippy — cosponsor (person)
  • R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
  • Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
  • Shetty — cosponsor (person)
  • Stein — cosponsor (person)
  • Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
  • Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
  • W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-23 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2019-01-23 Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
  • 2019-03-11 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-12 Favorable with Amendments {732611/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
  • 2019-03-14 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
  • 2019-03-14 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
  • 2019-03-22 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-22 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-22 Second Reading Passed
  • 2019-03-25 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
  • 2019-03-26 Returned Passed
  • 2019-04-18 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/531efcad-9f2e-4f13-9fb8-2d2119dce853. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).