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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Modifications"
description: "Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 437"
citation: "Maryland HB 437 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Taylor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fa88764-015a-41d5-a1da-dff7e7bd3658"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0437?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dd5691575fa61dc1667c8e225fbce7095e8a046d79f03486c66bcef265ba10ba"
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 437 (2025) — Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Modifications
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Modifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_153_hb0437t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Private Place** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0437f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Law - Visual Surveillance With Prurient Intent - Modifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0437t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1360** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Arikan — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fa88764-015a-41d5-a1da-dff7e7bd3658`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).