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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: "SB 347"
citation: "Maryland SB 347 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Carozza", "Eckardt", "Edwards", "Gallion", "Hershey", "Hough", "Jennings", "Ready", "Salling", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69df8f2f-e4d8-41de-bcc2-a3a13d75b1eb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0347?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "75d02e57e7c732e9fe0bd06e8a0c95517027607d21ce958022ee88ae6f8db176"
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 SB 347 (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_346_sb0347t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0347f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Certification of Police Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0347t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1330** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bailey — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Hough — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-23** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-01-29** Hearing canceled
- **2020-01-29** Hearing 2/11 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-14** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 346 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69df8f2f-e4d8-41de-bcc2-a3a13d75b1eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).