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type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
description: "Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 307"
citation: "Maryland HB 307 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Human Relations", "Archives", "Commission on Civil Rights", "Committees and Commissions", "Crimes and Punishments", "Discrimination", "Ethnic Affairs", "Hearings", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Monuments and Memorials", "Murder", "News Media", "Public Officials", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8eb62208-f7e8-463e-9b21-8bb2117aac54"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB307&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c1377d2fc58f3aa28eb47373823eea5233333c087769dfcf00042e745323fb33"
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 307 (2019) — Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0307f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1360** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-28** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {802419/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8eb62208-f7e8-463e-9b21-8bb2117aac54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).