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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties"
description: "Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 943"
citation: "Maryland HB 943 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Toles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80292514-abc3-421b-ae78-dbf23ef86d49"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0943?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d046f2d5d21e4622a0b19209c9811f8df7f28f67c1aa5675f71ed7673641b9e1"
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 943 (2025) — Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_189_hb0943t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Crimes of Malicious or Fraudulent Burning - Prohibitions and Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0943f.pdf)
3. **Third -** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0943t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1350** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Toles — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-31** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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 189 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80292514-abc3-421b-ae78-dbf23ef86d49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).