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Bill	Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties	Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 315	Maryland HB 315 (2020)	bill		enacted	Attar Barron Boyce Carr Charkoudian Ebersole Feldmark Fraser-Hidalgo Guyton Hettleman Kerr Lehman Lierman Love Moon P. Young Palakovich Carr R. Lewis Shetty Solomon Stewart Terrasa Wells	4	17	3	2020-01-20	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/056bab86-4911-4199-be1b-1969d4f8c777	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0315?ys=2020RS&search=True	8d8ea253d8029a2fa275064c9e3b954e4db45a5c284abee1c1c279b39282fb69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 315 (2020) — Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Public Ethics - Executive Branch - Lobbying by Former Secretaries of Principal Departments (Shut the Revolving Door Act of 2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Public Ethics Violations and Crimes – Prohibitions and Penalties (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Amend) — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 130–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 137–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Attar — primary (person)
• Barron — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Carr — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Lierman — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• Moon — primary (person)
• P. Young — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Shetty — primary (person)
• Solomon — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-20 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-01-21 Hearing canceled
• 2020-01-21 Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-09 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-12 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-03-18 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Passed Enrolled
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 164 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/056bab86-4911-4199-be1b-1969d4f8c777. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).