republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-293.md

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Bill	Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases	Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 293	Maryland HB 293 (2025)	bill		enacted	Arikan Conaway Grammer Kaufman Nkongolo Pasteur Phillips Pippy Sample-Hughes Schmidt Simmons Simpson Stinnett Taylor	3	13	2	2025-01-09	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0293?ys=2025RS&search=True	7da5bbe49749117a5e349ab35428854f225464e7459cb86b4e86f6435d4690db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 293 (2025) — Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 140–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arikan — primary (person)
• Conaway — primary (person)
• Grammer — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Nkongolo — primary (person)
• Pasteur — primary (person)
• Phillips — primary (person)
• Pippy — primary (person)
• Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Simmons — primary (person)
• Simpson — primary (person)
• Stinnett — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-13 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-17 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 Returned Passed
• 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60ec4067-88b6-42fa-94f6-4d833ba267ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).