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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers"
description: "Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 857"
citation: "Maryland HB 857 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckel", "Moon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91c7159d-d648-4619-b848-668b9bd74edc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0857?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "275fd4ad8eb7c4f048c51f7226d20019494c181cfff27c7e80d311e35170ec9e"
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 857 (2020) — Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_345_hb0857t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0857f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0857t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1340** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-03** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 345 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91c7159d-d648-4619-b848-668b9bd74edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).