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IntroducedJan 31, 2024
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Passed SenateMar 14, 2024
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Passed HouseApr 04, 2024
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Signed into LawApr 25, 2024
Freedom to Read Act
Last Action See all actions
executive • Apr 25, 2024: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Official Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 738
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Brookscosponsor
- Elfrethcosponsor
- Feldmancosponsor
- Fergusoncosponsor
- Gilecosponsor
- Guzzonecosponsor
- Hettlemancosponsor
- Jacksoncosponsor
- Kagancosponsor
- Kellycosponsor
- Kramercosponsor
- Lewis Youngcosponsor
- McCraycosponsor
- Waldstreichercosponsor
- A. Washingtoncosponsor
- M. Washingtoncosponsor
- Zuckercosponsor
Votes
NO: 33
ABSENT: 1
NOT VOTING: 1
NO: 32
ABSENT: 1
NOT VOTING: 1
YES: 101
- Speaker
- Cullison
- Ivey
- Pasteur
- Stein
- Acevero
- Davis
- Jackson
- Patterson
- Stewart
- Addison
- Ebersole
- Johnson, A.
- Pena-Melnyk
- Taveras
- Allen
- Edelson
- Johnson, S.
- Phillips
- Taylor
- Alston
- Embry
- Jones, D.
- Pruski
- Terrasa
- Amprey
- Fair
- Kaiser
- Qi
- Toles
- Attar
- Feldmark
- Kaufman
- Queen
- Turner
- Atterbeary
- Fennell
- Kerr
- Roberson
- Valderrama
- Bagnall
- Foley
- Korman
- Roberts
- Vogel
- Barnes
- Forbes
- Lehman
- Rogers
- Watson
- Bartlett
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Lewis, J.
- Rosenberg
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Grossman
- Lewis, R.
- Ruff
- White Holland
- Boafo
- Guyton
- Long, J.
- Ruth
- Wilkins
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Lopez
- Sample-Hughes
- Williams
- Cardin
- Harris
- Love
- Shetty
- Wilson
- Chang
- Harrison
- Martinez
- Simmons
- Wims
- Charkoudian
- Healey
- McCaskill
- Simpson
- Wolek
- Clippinger
- Henson
- Mireku-North
- Smith
- Wu
- Conaway
- Hill
- Moon
- Solomon
- Young
- Crosby
- Holmes
- Palakovich Carr
- Spiegel
- Ziegler
- Crutchfield
NO: 38
Actions
- Apr 25, 2024 | executive
- Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130
- Apr 05, 2024 | Senate
- Senate Concurs House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (31-11)
- Passed Enrolled
- Apr 04, 2024 | House
- Third Reading Passed (101-38)
- Apr 01, 2024 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
- Favorable with Amendments {223027/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 27, 2024 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 3/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- Mar 16, 2024 | House
- Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- Mar 15, 2024 | House
- Referred Ways and Means
- Mar 14, 2024 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (36-10)
- Mar 12, 2024 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments {173028/1 Adopted
- Floor Amendment {273022/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (12-33)
- Floor Amendment {863729/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-32)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 08, 2024 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments {173028/1
- Motion Special Order until 3/12 (Senator Ready) Adopted
- Mar 07, 2024 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
- Feb 09, 2024 | Senate
- Hearing 2/23 at 9:00 a.m.
- Jan 31, 2024 | Senate
- First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Freedom to Read ActPDF
- Amendments {173028/1 (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {273022/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (12-33) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {863729/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-32) (Senate)PDF
- Text - Third - Freedom to Read ActPDF
- Amendments {223027/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Enrolled - Freedom to Read ActPDF
- Text - Chapter - Freedom to Read ActPDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Ways and MeansPDF
- Video: Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentHTML
- Video: Ways and MeansHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Towne, Ezra (self)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Spangler, Adam (Office of Attorney General)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Ennis, Ella
- EEE Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Farris, Jaden (GLSEN Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Copper, Michele
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Gerding, Jacob (Maryland Association of School Librarians)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Duba, David (Bowie High School, Student Government)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Hale, Terry (Cecil County Councils Office)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bakos, Jenny (Washington County Free Library)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Alcantara-Antoine, Sonia (Baltimore County Public Library)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Bost, Cheryl (Maryland State Education Association)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sunderman, Gail (League of Women Voters Maryland (LWVMD))
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Padilla, Irene (Maryland State Library Agency)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Vose, Thomas (Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Taube, John (Allegany County Library System)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sutherland, Megan (Prince George's County Memorial Library System)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Watson, Jamie (Baltimore County Public Library)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Baykan, Mary (Citizens for Maryland Libraries)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Love, Tatanisha (Maryland Association of School Librarians)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Salazar, Janet (Queen Anne's County Library)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Browning, Jeremy (Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Buckler, Lauren
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Fitzwater, Jessica (Frederick County Executive)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Dowell, Arnessa
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Ward, Lindsay (MD Chesapeake Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP))
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Jasen, Debi
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Baker, Lindsey (Maryland Humanities)
- EEE Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hollywood, Nicole
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Love, William
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- King, Senator Nancy
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Tibbals, Trudy
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Lyons, Kathleen (Queen Anne’s County Public Library Board of Trustees)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Weich, Ronald (University of Baltimore School of Law)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kelly, James (Frederick County Public Libraries)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Jansen, Lloyd
- EEE Testimony, FWA -- Woolums, John (Maryland Assn. of Boards of Education)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Pittman, Steuart (Office of the Anne Arundel County Executive)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Scott, Suzie (Moms for Liberty Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, INFO -- January, Brianna (Maryland Association of Counties (MACo))
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Pedersen, Stacy
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Teagle, Ashley (Southern Maryland Regional Library Association)
- EEE Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Novak, Wendy
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Feldmann, Christine (Annapolis Pride)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Moses , Kim (Worcester County Government)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Funk, Kenzie (Strong Schools Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Edwards, Donna (Maryland State & DC AFL-CIO)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Auld, Skip (Anne Arundel County Public Library)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sinsky-Hopkins, Sharon
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bennett, Debby (Caroline County Public Library)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Maria
- EEE Testimony, FWA -- Fannon, Mary Pat
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Patinella, Frank (ACLU of Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bogdan, Henry (Maryland Nonprofits)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Kocher, Terri
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hopkins, Daniel
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Williams, Peggy
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Aikens, Tonya (Howard County Library System)
- EEE Testimony, FWA -- Sundermann, Liz (Enoch Pratt Free Library)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sutherland, Tiffany (Maryland Library Association)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hulme Tignor, Brittany (Maryland Association of School Librarians)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Carr, Alissa (Worcester United)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- HENRY, LORNA (Pacific Justice Institute)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Slade, Jacquelyn
- EEE Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Fitzwater, Jessica (Frederick County Executive)
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Pedersen, Stacy
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Barvir, Meghan
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Spangler, Adam (Office of Attorney General)
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- CARRICK, SHARON
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Bogdan, Henry (Maryland Nonprofits)
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Tibbals, Trudy
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Buckler, Lauren
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Padilla, Irene (Maryland State Library Agency)
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- King, Senator Nancy
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Farris, Jaden (GLSEN Maryland)
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Hollywood, Nicole
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Williams, Peggy
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Browning, Jeremy (Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs)
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Price, Suzanne (Concerned Citizen)
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Benn, Sarahia
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Love, William
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Idleman, Melissa
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- W&M Testimony, INFO -- January, Brianna (Maryland Association of Counties (MACo))
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Lang, Alan
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Meyerovich, Mark
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Hunt, Christine
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Hossainkhail, Alexander (Maryland Youth Advisory Council)
- W&M Testimony, UNF -- Scott, Suzie (Moms for Liberty Maryland)
- W&M Testimony, FAV -- Bost, Cheryl (Maryland State Education Association)
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