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IntroducedJan 15, 2026
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Passed SenateFeb 03, 2026
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Passed House
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Became Law
Maryland Senate Bill
Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Prohibition
Last Action See all actions
House • Feb 09, 2026: Favorable Report by Judiciary
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 245
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
NO: 32
ABSENT: 1
NO: 31
ABSENT: 1
NOT VOTING: 2
Actions
- Feb 09, 2026 | House
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- Feb 04, 2026 | House
- Referred Judiciary
- Feb 03, 2026 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (32-12)
- Jan 29, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable Adopted
- Floor Amendment {503428/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-31)
- Floor Amendment {853125/1 (Senator Hershey) Rejected (14-32)
- Floor Amendment {613221/1 (Senator Sydnor) Adopted (33-13)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Jan 28, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Jan 15, 2026 | Senate
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- Hearing 1/22 at 1:00 p.m.
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - ProhibitionPDF
- Floor Amendment {503428/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-31) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {853125/1 (Senator Hershey) Rejected (14-32) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {613221/1 (Senator Sydnor) Adopted (33-13) (Senate)PDF
- Text - Third - Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement Agreements - ProhibitionPDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - JudiciaryPDF
- Video: Judicial ProceedingsHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Markey, Michelle
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Silver, Joanna (Joanna Silver)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jacobsohn, Deedee
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Levitas, Jonathan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Goldfinger, Rebecca
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Pollack, Elizabeth
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Gilbert, Russell
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Olivas, Aaron
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- shah, sonia
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zeller, Eileen (None)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lattimer, Deborah
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Caruso, Anthony
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Solomon, Julie (self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Eisenstein, Miriam
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sharp, Birgit (CANDLE)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- STERN, CAROL
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Turner, Rebecca
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Foley, Lana (Crabs On The Shore, Indivisible DelMarVa, Wicomico County Dem Club)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Van Rens, Robert
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Liskin, Laurie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blank, Emily
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Miner
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mitchell, Carolyn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Weissman, Louise (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Pollack, Thomas
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Harper, Shelby (Montgomery County, Maryland Women's Democratic Club)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Nigro, Lia
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- O'Connor, Monica
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Feit, Michelle
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ichile-Mckenzie, Ongisa (Southern Marylanders for Racial Equality)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lampel, Anita (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Holmes, Paul
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Nemett, Diane
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tafler, Susan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Giles, Ariana
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Peterson, Emily
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Arian, Charles
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kickenson, Jerry
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Gobel, Christian (AFSCME Maryland Council 3)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Follingstad, Susaanti (Silver Spring Justice Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Owens, Nikki
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Lopez, Eric (Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sugarman, Kate (Doctors For Camp Closure)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rosenthal, Lore
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jasen, Debi
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jasen, John
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Enagonio, Liz
- JPR Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Kerin, Susan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Boddie-Willis, Cynthia (League of Women Voters of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- McClure, Judy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- White, Marceline (Economic Action Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Levy, Anna
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Eckel, Rianna (SURJ Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Miller, Andrew
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Gordon, Henry (Park Hills Civic Association)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Heinz, Loreen
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bourozikas, George
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Friedman, David
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bates Crimmins, Joanne (Indivisible Frederick Forward Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lesser, Natasha
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Huberman, Amy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Marguerite, Christianne
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Keipper, Lindsay (Showing Up for Racial Justice- Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Duprey, Alexandra
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Golombek, Daniel
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tamagna, Jane
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Morgan, Jessica (Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women (MLAW))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brilliant, Franca
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tupper, Janet
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Simon, Julie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Raven, Sea
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ditz, Toby
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fleitman, Judith
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Cohen Ottenheimer, Fronda
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Theresa M. (Showing Up for Racial Justice Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- RUBIN, ANNA (Anna Rubin)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lefstein, Gita
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schrock, Ydelka
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brocht, Chauna
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Younger, Natalie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hanratty, Rosanne
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Berger, Zackary
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Solages, Andy (Indivisible Frederick Forward)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schrock, Ydelka (Together We Will Harford County Indivisible)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Williams, Sabrina (Indivisible Frederick)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ulmes, Tracie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Garner, Claire
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Casagrande, Paula
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- NAACP Branch 7139, Garrett County (Garrett County NAACP #7139)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Buxton, Lucy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Goldberg, Joshua
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Greenberg, Marcia
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sumida, Madeline
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Shifrin, Jo
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sumida, Janet
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Pittman, Steuart (Anne Arundel County)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Browne, Debra
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Petrides, Stephanie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wong, Janelle
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Beckford, Kevin (Pretrial Justice Institute)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dineen, Mary Margaret
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Singh, Ashima
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bergmann, Catherine
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ogurick, Arlene
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Arikat, Loraine (1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Maslen, Catherine
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wilkerson, Alice (Advance Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dancis, Ronit A
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Barnoy, Ishai
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jarvis, Barbara
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Smith-Hams, Taylor
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tanner, Judith
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tupper, David
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bickel, Beverly
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Armendariz, Rebecca
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Gupta, Riya (Blueprint Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Goemann, Melissa (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hodge-Williams, Samantha
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Parke, Kathryn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Antoine, Joanne (Common Cause Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Spear, Bob
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wilson, Lorraine
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Charlotte (Trans Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- DeLong, Michael (Montgomery County Young Democrats)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Thomas, Timothy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Yost, David (Arnolia UMC, Parkville, MD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- DuBois, Gwen (Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hodge-Williams, Val
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Cavanaugh, Jean (Self)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- CARRICK, SHARON
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rothermel, Tim (Cecil Solidarity)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Richkus, Peta
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Glazer, Sherry
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Merrick, Byron
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lee, Mari (Frederick County Democratic Party)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Atkins, Robert
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wenner, Kathryn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ford, John
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Cruz, Benjamin
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Russell, Brandon
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blalock, Jennifer
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Montgomery Nguyen, Jean
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lemle, Paul (Maryland State Education Association)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Potyraj, Thomas
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Shulman, Debbie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Holt, Steve (MEPPN)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- DÃaz, César
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Green, Linda (Life After Release)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fisher, Stevan
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Rendall, Shari (FAIR)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Morrison, Catherine
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Caldiero, Jim (UULM-MD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Amanuel, Yanet
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Martinez, Madelin (Catholic Charities)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- SWASC, UM (Social Work Advocates for Social Change)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mazurek, Michelle
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ellicott, Abbie (Coalition for LGBTQ+ Students)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dias Amarawardena, Lahiruni
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zinner, Roslyn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Vaughn, Katherine
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rentschler, Ann
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fraser, Alexandra (UULM-MD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Puentes, Erica (Progressive Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Juberg, Arielle
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lemberg, Kenneth
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hadad, Nancy
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Kenney, A.Kaye (Wicomico County, Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Tibbals, Trudy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brach, Cecile
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Pacheco Hernandez, Keily (SOMOS)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Marbury, Marian
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Streight, Adam (Cecil County Government)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Klapka, Miriam
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mansour, Erinn Camp (Patapsco Friends Meeting)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mohler, Jeremy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hodge-Williams, Kelly
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Good, Megan
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- MULLICAN, Brigitta (Private)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schumitz, Kali (Maryland Center on Economic Policy)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Margorin, Alexandra (SEIU 32BJ)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Davis, Lynda
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Feit, Steven
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Krieger, Betsy (Be the Change Bmore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- McMillian, Nevan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Getrich, Christina
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Westbrook, Viviana (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC))
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Cano, Christopher (SEIU Local 500)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- flamholz, mindie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lipsitz, Gail
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Puentes, Erica
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jarvis, Jennifer
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Vincent, Carla
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Selvam, Prabu
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fleitman, Bernard
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mezzomo, Angela (Maryland Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Jackson, Samira (MD Police Chiefs Assoc. and MD Sheriffs Assoc.)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Leiblum, Marisha (UNITE HERE Local 7)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Funk, Kenzie (Strong Schools Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Roth, Laura
- JPR Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Franklin, Neill (Law Enforcement Action Partnership)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mortoro, Lynn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fitzwater, Jessica (Frederick County Executive)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hayes, Kimberly (Self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Browning, Jeremy (Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zanchelli, Michael
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wade, Gena
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Valencia-Banks, Giuliana
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tyler, Jr.-CoChair, Rick (Maryland Education Coalition)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Benford, Christian
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Proctor, Karessa (NASW Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Carlisle, Marilyn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Nicholson, Shannon
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Horn, Christine (Tina) (PATH, ACT and AIM)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Baldwin-Bott, Dorian
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Barkan, Lisa
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Shaffer, Judy (UULM-MD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Benitez, Mayor Celina (City of Mount Rainier)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Galindo, Claudia
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Allen, Susan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wandy, Tiffany
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Yoder, Daryl
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Koplik, Chuck (Jewish Community Relations Council of Howard County)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Christof, karen
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lee, Hana
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Spillane, John
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Taylor, Shannon
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Searcy, Talisha (City of Takoma Park)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Fani-González, Natali (Montgomery County Council)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Grice, Alison
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Lierman, Brooke (Comptroller of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hartig, Katherine
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hodge-Williams, Erin
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Reilly, Jesse (Baltimore Rapid Response Network)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kraft, Miriam
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Latino Caucus, Maryland Legislative
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Morningstar, Sara (Montgomery County Government)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Julin, Anders
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blaha, Katherine (SURJ)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fisher, Sonja
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Doss, Coen
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sacks, Dawn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fishman, Clifford
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- English, Michael (N/A)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Young, Emily (EdTrust)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Clair, Kathleen
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Wolf, Stephanie (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- young, lauren
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Cohen, Abigail
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ryan, Sara
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Raftovich, Jeremiah
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Atkinson, David
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- KRAMER, STACEY
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Yunda, Allison (National Domestic Workers Alliance)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Breiling, Annette (Ms.)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Gottlich, Vicki (Retired)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tekiela, Jaclyn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- McGrath, Eileen
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Little, Kathryn
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Alumbro, Julio Miguel
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- kenna, ida (Greater Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hill, Matt
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ebenreck, Jered
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Apple, Chris
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Korona, Kristina (Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County (TAAAC))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- LAGRANGE, AMY
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Waychoff, Amy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kleinman, Jan (SURJ Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Powell, Holly (Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hurley, Ayla
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Tuttle, Jean (self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blum, Daniel (Centro Hispano de Frederick)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brinkmann, Jackie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Feighner, Liz (Liz Feighner, self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Feighner, Liz (Liz Feighner, self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Todd, Tamara
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Thomas, Heather
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kaiser, Mary
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kitchin, James
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Atwood, Laura
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zellmer, Charlene Belsom
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Weingast, Adam
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- McGowan, Kiko
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ateto, Philip
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Shih, Nancy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Robert, Nolanda (County Council of Harford County, MD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jackson, Cathryn (CASA)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Anderson, Caroline (Councilwoman, City of Hagerstown)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Sample, Sarah (Maryland Association of Counties)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wechtaluk, Ethan (ETHAN for Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ball, Calvin (Howard County Office of County Executive)
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