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Bill	Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)	Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 1204	Maryland HB 1204 (2025)	bill		enacted	Atterbeary Ebersole Feldmark Griffith Hill Kaufman McComas Mireku-North Palakovich Carr Patterson Roberts Schindler Turner Wells Wims Wu	3	16	2	2025-02-06	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1204?ys=2025RS&search=True	e4e9ed4c0b65fd4527462be4235cf2fa22d58a2c56a8c104af6570c555bd10a0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1204 (2025) — Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law) (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 136–2 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Atterbeary — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Griffith — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• McComas — primary (person)
• Mireku-North — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Roberts — primary (person)
• Schindler — primary (person)
• Turner — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• Wims — primary (person)
• Wu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-05 Hearing canceled
• 2025-03-05 Hearing 3/05 at 1:15 p.m.
• 2025-03-15 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-15 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-15 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-17 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-04-02 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-03 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).