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IntroducedJan 22, 2026
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction (Youth Charging Reform Act)
Last Action See all actions
House • Jan 29, 2026: Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 409
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
Actions
- Jan 29, 2026 | House
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- Jan 22, 2026 | House
- First Reading Judiciary
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Video: JudiciaryHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Schiraldi, Vincent (Former Prosecutors and Secretaries - Maryland Departments of Public Safety and Correctional Services and Juvenile Services)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Greengrass, Mara
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Koplik, Chuck (Jewish Community Relations Council of Howard County)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Proctor, Karessa (NASW Maryland)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Harvey, Robert (Calvert County State's Attorney's Office)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Kovacs, Lisa (Maryland Association of Local Management Boards)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Frost, Lesley (Nationa Council of Jewish Women, MD Action Team)
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Crisafulli, Matthew (Worcester County Sheriffs Office)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Moroney, Nick
- JUD Testimony, INFO -- Vormelker, Will (Maryland Judiciary)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Tafler, Susan
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Shellenberger, Scott (Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Solomon, Julie (self)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Joshi, Uday Sharad
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- miller, deborah (JCRC of Greater Washington)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Snyder, Abigail (Baltimore Jewish Council)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Hession, Melody (Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Lampel, Anita (Jews United for Justice)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Miner
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Naugle, Olivia (The Sentencing Project)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Tilghman, Marlon (Bridge Maryland, Inc)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Eisenstein, Miriam
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- STERN, CAROL
- JUD Testimony, INFO -- Jenkins, Sydni
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Culver, Allan (Maryland State's Attorney's Association)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Friedman, David
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- RUBIN, ANNA (Anna Rubin)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Bergofsky, Linda
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Shifrin, Jo
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Watts, Lydia (Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise (ROAR) Center at UMB)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Dixon, Monique (Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Melvin, Robert (R Street Institute)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Miller, Andrew
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Holmes, Paul
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Lennig, Dorothy (Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Caroom, Philip
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Dold, James (Human Rights for Kids)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- O'Day, Garrett (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Brown, Kirsten (Maryland State's Attorneys' Association)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Brown, Anthony (Office of the Attorney General)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Keipper, Lindsay (Showing Up for Racial Justice- Baltimore)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Lofgren, Ingrid (Public Justice Center)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- McMahon, Sukyi
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Boddie-Willis, Cynthia (League of Women Voters of Maryland)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Goemann, Melissa (Jews United for Justice)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Fox Tolentino, Betsy (Maryland Department of Juvenile Services)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Chaudry, Zainab
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Frost, Elisa
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Wilt, Laura (Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Blank, Emily
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Cichowski, Carol
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Duckett-Randolph, Neka (Out 4 Justice)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Speaks, Terry (Out for Justice)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Caplan, Karen (Karen D. Caplan)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Ashraf, Iqra
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Finigan-Carr, Nadine (UMB: Center for Violence Prevention)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Agarin, Ufuoma (Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Krol, Devin
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Ford, John
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Rochkind, Jonathan
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Dumais, Dianne
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Ogurick, Arlene
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Edwards-Luce, Aubrey (Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Wilkerson, Alice (Advance Maryland)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Tsiongas, Magdalena
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Theresa M. (Showing Up for Racial Justice Baltimore)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- SWASC, UM (Social Work Advocates for Social Change)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Winkler, Shelley
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Landers, Claire
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Jackson, Samira (MD Police Chiefs Assoc. and MD Sheriffs Assoc.)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Schaffer, Barbara
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Quinn, Kelly (The Choice Program at UMBC)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Rosen, Julie
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Ditz, Toby
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Levan, Brooke
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Bates, Ivan (State's Attorney for Baltimore City)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Moore, Tonaeya (CASH Campaign of Maryland)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Seagears, Erin (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Dykes, Jamie (Office of the State's Attorney for Wicomico County)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Hardesty, Lori
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Wilkins, Katherine (SURJ)
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Cassilly, Robert (Harford County Government)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Mehlman, Poppy
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Patinella, Frank (ACLU of Maryland)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Metz, Rachel
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Eckel, Rianna (SURJ Baltimore)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Hybl, Lois
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Yoder, Daryl
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Blaha, Katherine (SURJ)
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Warnken, Heather (University of Baltimore School of Law Center for Criminal Justice Reform)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Powell, Holly (Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ))
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Marion, Travis (Town of Rising Sun)
- JUD Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All



