republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/hb-240.md

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Bill	Hate Crimes – Threats	Hate Crimes – Threats	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	HB 240	Maryland HB 240 (2019)	bill	Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes Human Relations Crimes and Punishments Discrimination Education Ethnic Affairs Penalties and Sentences Religion Threats Volunteers	enacted	Rosenberg	1	13	2	2019-01-24	2019-04-18	openstates	ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB240&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	646bce09ec783e3dd0b36a0e052c5393796e29a64a62e93bb2b9b5d46d241ea1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 240 (2019) — Hate Crimes – Threats

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• No motion given — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 133–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Attar — cosponsor (person)
• Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• Cardin — cosponsor (person)
• Chang — cosponsor (person)
• Guyton — cosponsor (person)
• Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
• Lierman — cosponsor (person)
• Moon — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• Stein — cosponsor (person)
• Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-24 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-24 Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-06 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-07 Favorable with Amendments {852217/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-07 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-08 Third Reading Passed (133-2) passage
• 2019-03-11 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-01 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-01 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-04-02 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2019-04-03 Returned Passed
• 2019-04-18 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/472cd691-0a82-4ded-9486-2c6aea85d98f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).