republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/sb-144.md

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Bill	Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness	Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	SB 144	Maryland SB 144 (2019)	bill	Criminal Law - Procedure Commission on Civil Rights Courts Crimes and Punishments Disabilities Disclosure Human Services Department of Immigrants and Citizenship Investigations and Inquiries Judges Labor Licensing and Regulation Department of Law Enforcement Liability Minors Parents and Guardians Public Officials Records State's Attorneys Victims Witnesses	enacted	Augustine	1	14	2	2019-01-21	2019-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/03d8a3d8-8a7b-4f1b-8dfc-81e169ba9a00	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB144&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	a8ab95681c5f8be8c7f899fe5ddc59598293772d95744f0aca1b793fe3c8433c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 144 (2019) — Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness

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 — 109–23 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Augustine — primary (person)
• Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
• Kagan — cosponsor (person)
• Kelley — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
• West — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)
• Zucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-21 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-18 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 Favorable with Amendments {478078/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-1) passage
• 2019-03-19 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-04-03 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-04-05 Third Reading Passed (109-23) passage
• 2019-04-08 Returned Passed
• 2019-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03d8a3d8-8a7b-4f1b-8dfc-81e169ba9a00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).