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type: "Bill"
title: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)"
description: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1204"
citation: "Maryland HB 1204 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Hill", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Roberts", "Schindler", "Turner", "Wells", "Wims", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1204?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e4e9ed4c0b65fd4527462be4235cf2fa22d58a2c56a8c104af6570c555bd10a0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_339_hb1204t.pdf)
2. **First - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1204f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1204t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1362** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9569679a-d9db-4ae1-a607-a89231406582`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).