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IntroducedJan 22, 2026
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Passed SenateMar 06, 2026
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Passed House
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Became Law
Maryland Senate Bill
Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)
Last Action See all actions
House • Mar 09, 2026: Referred Judiciary
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 323
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
NO: 30
ABSENT: 3
NOT VOTING: 1
NO: 29
ABSENT: 3
NOT VOTING: 1
YES: 14
NO: 27
ABSENT: 3
Actions
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Referred Judiciary
- Mar 06, 2026 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (32-12)
- Mar 04, 2026 | Senate
- Floor Amendment {883829/1 (Senator Smith) Adopted
- Floor Amendment {943023/1 (Senator Folden) Rejected (14-27)
- Floor Amendment {793920/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-30)
- Floor Amendment {963320/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (16-26)
- Floor Amendment {983221/1 (Senator Folden)
- Motion Special Order until 3/5 (Senator Folden) Rejected (14-29)
- Floor Amendment {983221/1 (Senator Folden) Rejected (16-27)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 03, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments {133421/1 Adopted
- Floor Amendment {883829/1 (Senator Smith)
- Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted
- Mar 02, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Jan 23, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing 2/04 at 11:00 a.m.
- Jan 22, 2026 | Senate
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction (Youth Charging Reform Act)PDF
- Amendments {133421/1 Adopted (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {883829/1 (Senator Smith) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {943023/1 (Senator Folden) Rejected (14-27) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {793920/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (13-30) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {963320/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (16-26) (Senate)PDF
- Floor Amendment {983221/1 (Senator Folden) (Senate)PDF
- Text - Third - Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction, Detention, and Confinement (Youth Charging Reform Act)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Video: Judicial ProceedingsHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Solomon, Julie (self)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lennig, Dorothy (Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Shellenberger, Scott (Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Finch, Molly
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rothstein, Melissa
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kleinman, Jan (SURJ Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tafler, Susan
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Proctor, Karessa (NASW Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Park, Liz (MD Association of Youth Service Bureaus)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Koplik, Chuck (Jewish Community Relations Council of Howard County)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Eisenstein, Miriam
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- STERN, CAROL
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Greengrass, Mara
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Dykes, Jamie (Office of the State's Attorney for Wicomico County)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Frost, Lesley (Nationa Council of Jewish Women, MD Action Team)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Naugle, Olivia (The Sentencing Project)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Boddie-Willis, Cynthia (League of Women Voters of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Miner
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ditz, Toby
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Brown, Kirsten (Maryland State's Attorneys' Association)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Quinn, Kelly (The Choice Program at UMBC)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Holmes, Paul
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- McMahon, Sukyi
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Brown, Anthony (Office of the Attorney General)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hession, Melody (Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rosen, Julie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Goemann, Melissa (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Finigan-Carr, Nadine (UMB: Center for Violence Prevention)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schaffer, Barbara
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kraus, Edward
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bergofsky, Linda
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Landers, Claire
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Caplan, Karen (Karen D. Caplan)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lampel, Anita (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Melvin, Robert (R Street Institute)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schiraldi, Vincent
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Frey, Leslie (Montgomery County)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ogurick, Arlene
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ford, John
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Shifrin, Jo
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jacobsohn, Deedee
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Cichowski, Carol
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dumais, Dianne
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Scali, Mary Ann (The Gault Center: Defenders of Youth Rights)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Moroney, Nick
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Duckett-Randolph, Neka (Out 4 Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Theresa M. (Showing Up for Racial Justice Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Fraser, Brytani
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Chung, Pam (Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Miller, Andrew
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Frost, Elisa
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tilghman, Marlon (Bridge Maryland, Inc)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Badeker, Melissa (SURJ Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wilkerson, Alice (Advance Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Snyder, Abigail (Baltimore Jewish Council)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Caroom, Philip
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ashraf, Iqra
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zeimer, Matan (Jews United for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Krol, Devin
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blank, Emily
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- O'Day, Garrett (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Edwards-Luce, Aubrey (Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Agarin, Ufuoma (Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Patinella, Frank (ACLU of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Krabill, Jenny
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Muhammad, Khayyum (Youth As Resources)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dold, James (Human Rights for Kids)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Keipper, Lindsay (Showing Up for Racial Justice- Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Speaks, Terry (Out for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Watts, Lydia (Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise (ROAR) Center at UMB)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Tsiongas, Magdalena
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- miller, deborah (JCRC of Greater Washington)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Fox Tolentino, Betsy (Maryland Department of Juvenile Services)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Herman, Bruce
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wilkins, Katherine (SURJ)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lofgren, Ingrid (Public Justice Center)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Phelps Jr, Ken (The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Todd, Tamara
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dixon, Monique (Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Carrington, Darrell (Carrington & Associates, LLC)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Wilt, Laura (Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kovacs, Lisa (Maryland Association of Local Management Boards)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Pack, Jr., Gordon
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Winkler, Shelley
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- RUBIN, ANNA (Anna Rubin)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Eckel, Rianna (SURJ Baltimore)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Yoder, Daryl
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Moore, Tonaeya (CASH Campaign of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Friedman, David
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- SWASC, UM (Social Work Advocates for Social Change)
- JPR Testimony, INFO -- Vormelker, Will (Maryland Judiciary)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Jackson, Samira (MD Police Chiefs Assoc. and MD Sheriffs Assoc.)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Mehlman, Poppy
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Seagears, Erin (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Metz, Rachel
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hardesty, Lori
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Warnken, Heather (University of Baltimore School of Law Center for Criminal Justice Reform)
- JPR Testimony, UNF -- Jackson, Tara (State's Attorney for Prince George's County)
- JPR Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
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