republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2020/sb-212.md

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Bill	Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation	Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	SB 212	Maryland SB 212 (2020)	bill		enacted	Beidle Cassilly Elfreth Guzzone Kagan King Klausmeier Kramer Lam Lee Ready Serafini Smith Sydnor Waldstreicher West Young Zucker	3	12	2	2020-01-16	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b7afccef-32aa-4113-a95b-878ff4ad304c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0212?ys=2020RS&search=True	bf726c3d4abb2c3fa3c6a7e4635799775389a9b6aafe2797a90320f9b6959f09	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 212 (2020) — Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Criminal Law - Assault in the First Degree - Suffocation or Strangulation (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Criminal Law – Assault in the First Degree – Strangulation (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 130–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beidle — primary (person)
• Cassilly — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Kagan — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)
• Kramer — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Lee — primary (person)
• Ready — primary (person)
• Serafini — primary (person)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Sydnor — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)
• Young — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-16 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-12 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-12 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-15 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-15 Referred Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 120 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7afccef-32aa-4113-a95b-878ff4ad304c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).