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Bill Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act) Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act) us/states/md Maryland General Assembly 2026 SB 531 Maryland SB 531 (2026)
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Maryland SB 531 (2026) — Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act)

Version chain

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

  1. Chapter - Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act) (committee substitute) — source
  2. First - Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Third - Criminal Procedure - Victims of Sexually Assaultive Behavior - Request for Verbal Acknowledgement (Verbal Waiver Transparency Act) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • On Third Reading — 410 (pass) · upper
  • On Third Reading — 1180 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Henson — primary (person)
  • Hettleman — primary (person)
  • Love — primary (person)
  • West — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-02-04 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
  • 2026-02-05 Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
  • 2026-03-02 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-03 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
  • 2026-03-05 Third Reading Passed passage
  • 2026-03-06 Referred Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2026-04-02 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-04-02 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
  • 2026-04-06 Returned Passed
  • 2026-05-12 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b97db26a-224e-45a7-a664-8e3d328ad762. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).