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Bill	Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data	Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2022	HB 244	Maryland HB 244 (2022)	bill		enacted	Buckel Charkoudian Crutchfield Davis Harrison J. Lewis Moon R. Jones	3	14	2	2022-01-13	2022-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/01f3354d-8675-43c8-82c8-da41dee35351	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0244?ys=2022RS&search=True	e2dc1d2bac261bc57deecbc22416fc72c8204ce44396bc6f9c5339cc5fa49e27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 244 (2022) — Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 115–15 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 42–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buckel — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Crutchfield — primary (person)
• Davis — primary (person)
• Harrison — primary (person)
• J. Lewis — primary (person)
• Moon — primary (person)
• R. Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-13 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-14 Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2022-03-18 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-18 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-21 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-03-21 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2022-04-09 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-09 Favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-09 Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Smith) Adopted
• 2022-04-09 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-09 Second Reading Passed
• 2022-04-09 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-04-11 Returned Passed
• 2022-05-29 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 541 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01f3354d-8675-43c8-82c8-da41dee35351. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).