republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/hb-496.md

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Bill	Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force	Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 496	Maryland HB 496 (2024)	bill		enacted	Acevero Anderton Arikan Attar Atterbeary Bagnall Barnes Bartlett Boafo Boyce Chang Charkoudian Conaway Crosby Crutchfield Cullison D. Jones Embry Fair Feldmark Foley Forbes Grammer Grossman Guyton Guzzone Kaiser Kaufman Lopez Love McCaskill Mireku-North Munoz Palakovich Carr Pasteur Pena-Melnyk Phillips R. Lewis Roberson Rosenberg Ruth Shetty Simmons Simpson Smith Solomon Spiegel Stein Taylor Terrasa Toles Vogel Wells White Holland Williams Wolek Wu	4	19	3	2024-01-24	2024-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/fff1c168-19ba-4a9b-b111-2fb876539151	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0496?ys=2024RS&search=True	f2a3a5fe1ddfe4a225fbdc2db7e02ad7b3a820b962bb1d1565ace690ab44c478	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 496 (2024) — Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 135–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading (Amend) — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 131–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Acevero — primary (person)
• Anderton — primary (person)
• Arikan — primary (person)
• Attar — primary (person)
• Atterbeary — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Barnes — primary (person)
• Bartlett — primary (person)
• Boafo — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Chang — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Conaway — primary (person)
• Crosby — primary (person)
• Crutchfield — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• D. Jones — primary (person)
• Embry — primary (person)
• Fair — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Forbes — primary (person)
• Grammer — primary (person)
• Grossman — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• McCaskill — primary (person)
• Mireku-North — primary (person)
• Munoz — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Pasteur — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Phillips — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Roberson — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Shetty — primary (person)
• Simmons — primary (person)
• Simpson — primary (person)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Solomon — primary (person)
• Spiegel — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Toles — primary (person)
• Vogel — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Williams — primary (person)
• Wolek — primary (person)
• Wu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-18 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2024-03-26 Hearing 3/28 at 9:00 a.m.
• 2024-03-26 Hearing canceled
• 2024-03-26 Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-29 Hearing canceled
• 2024-04-02 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-04-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-05 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2024-04-05 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-05 Passed Enrolled
• 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fff1c168-19ba-4a9b-b111-2fb876539151. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).