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IntroducedJan 23, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 17, 2025
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Passed SenateApr 04, 2025
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Signed into Law
Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions and Immigration Enforcement at Sensitive Locations
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House • Apr 07, 2025: Third Reading Passed (124-14)
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Comments on HB 579
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Votes
YES: 99
- Speaker
- Crutchfield
- Jones, D.
- Roberson
- Taylor
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Kaiser
- Roberts
- Terrasa
- Addison
- Davis
- Kaufman
- Rogers
- Toles
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Kerr
- Rosenberg
- Turner
- Alston
- Edelson
- Korman
- Ross
- Valderrama
- Amprey
- Embry
- Lehman
- Ruff
- Vogel
- Atterbeary
- Fair
- Lewis, J.
- Ruth
- Watson
- Bagnall
- Feldmark
- Lewis, R.
- Sample-Hughes
- Wells
- Barnes
- Fennell
- Lopez
- Schindler
- White Holland
- Bartlett
- Foley
- Martinez
- Schmidt
- Wilkins
- Behler
- Forbes
- McCaskill
- Shetty
- Williams
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Mireku-North
- Simmons
- Wilson
- Boafo
- Guyton
- Moon
- Simpson
- Wims
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Palakovich Carr
- Smith
- Wolek
- Cardin
- Harris
- Pasteur
- Solomon
- Woods
- Chang
- Harrison
- Patterson
- Spiegel
- Woorman
- Charkoudian
- Healey
- Pena-Melnyk
- Stein
- Wu
- Clippinger
- Hill
- Phillips
- Stewart
- Young
- Conaway
- Holmes
- Pruski
- Stinnett
- Ziegler
- Crosby
- Ivey
- Qi
- Taveras
NO: 39
NOT VOTING: 1
YES: 124
- Speaker
- Crutchfield
- Jacobs
- Patterson
- Stinnett
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Johnson, A.
- Pena-Melnyk
- Szeliga
- Addison
- Davis
- Johnson, S.
- Phillips
- Taveras
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Jones, D.
- Pruski
- Taylor
- Alston
- Edelson
- Kaiser
- Qi
- Terrasa
- Amprey
- Embry
- Kaufman
- Queen
- Toles
- Arentz
- Feldmark
- Kerr
- Reilly
- Tomlinson
- Arikan
- Fennell
- Kipke
- Roberson
- Turner
- Atterbeary
- Foley
- Korman
- Roberts
- Valderrama
- Bagnall
- Forbes
- Lehman
- Rogers
- Valentine
- Barnes
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Lewis, J.
- Rosenberg
- Vogel
- Bartlett
- Grammer
- Lewis, R.
- Ross
- Watson
- Behler
- Griffith
- Long, J.
- Ruff
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Guyton
- Long, R.
- Ruth
- White Holland
- Boafo
- Guzzone
- Lopez
- Sample-Hughes
- Wilkins
- Bouchat
- Harris
- Martinez
- Schindler
- Williams
- Boyce
- Harrison
- McCaskill
- Schmidt
- Wilson
- Buckel
- Healey
- Metzgar
- Shetty
- Wims
- Cardin
- Hill
- Mireku-North
- Simmons
- Wolek
- Chang
- Hinebaugh
- Moon
- Simpson
- Woods
- Charkoudian
- Holmes
- Morgan, M.
- Smith
- Woorman
- Ciliberti
- Hornberger
- Morgan, T.
- Solomon
- Wu
- Clippinger
- Howard
- Nkongolo
- Spiegel
- Young
- Conaway
- Hutchinson
- Palakovich Carr
- Stein
- Ziegler
- Crosby
- Ivey
- Pasteur
- Stewart
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Apr 07, 2025 | House
- Senate Refuses Recede
- Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Smith, Love and McKay)
- Conference Committee Report {273726/1 Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (124-14)
- Apr 07, 2025 | Senate
- House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Moon, Embry and Valentine)
- Senate Refuses Recede
- Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Smith, Love and McKay)
- Apr 05, 2025 | House
- House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Moon, Embry and Valentine)
- Apr 04, 2025 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable with Amendments {473526/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (32-12)
- Mar 17, 2025 | Senate
- Referred Judicial Proceedings
- Mar 17, 2025 | House
- Third Reading Passed (99-39)
- Mar 15, 2025 | House
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 14, 2025 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- Favorable with Amendments {493023/1 Adopted
- Motion Special Order until 03/15 (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- Feb 10, 2025 | House
- Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- Jan 23, 2025 | House
- First Reading Judiciary
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status PetitionsPDF
- Amendments {493023/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Third - Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions and Immigration Enforcement at Sensitive LocationsPDF
- Amendments {473526/1 Adopted (Senate)PDF
- Conference Committee Report {273726/1 Adopted (House)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - House - Committee - JudiciaryPDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Video: JudiciaryHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Allyn, Rebecca (Gov's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, & Victim; Governor's Family Violence Council)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Orbe, Jr., Carlos (Maryland Latinos Unidos)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Wambui, Maureen
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Hoidra, Sharareh (Maryland State Bar Association Immigration Section)
- JUD Testimony, FWA -- Orloff, Leslye (National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP Inc))
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Golombek, Daniel
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- OMalley, Catherine (Women's Law Center)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Thronson, Veronica (NIWAP, Inc.)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Westbrook, Viviana (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC))
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Yang, Edna (NIWAP, Inc.)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Emerson, Jessica (The Human Trafficking Prevention Project)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Ruth, Laure (Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Greene, Jonathan (MSBA Immigration Law Section Council)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Martinez, Ashanti (MD Legislative Latino Caucus)