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IntroducedFeb 02, 2026
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Passed HouseApr 07, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Criminal Procedure - Evidence - Protecting Artists' Creative Expression (PACE Act)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Apr 09, 2026: Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 687
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Addisoncosponsor
- Bouchatcosponsor
- Conawaycosponsor
- Daviscosponsor
- Embrycosponsor
- Faircosponsor
- Lewiscosponsor
- J. Longcosponsor
- Morenocosponsor
- Robersoncosponsor
- Ruffcosponsor
- Simmonscosponsor
- Simpsoncosponsor
- Stinnettcosponsor
- Taverascosponsor
- Taylorcosponsor
- Tomlinsoncosponsor
- Wilkinscosponsor
- Williamscosponsor
- Woodscosponsor
- Youngcosponsor
Votes
YES: 100
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Crutchfield
- Johnson, S.
- Pruski
- Taveras
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Taylor
- Addison
- Davis
- Kaiser
- Roberson
- Terrasa
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Kaufman
- Roberts
- Tomlinson
- Alston
- Edelson
- Kerr
- Rogers
- Turner
- Amprey
- Embry
- Korman
- Rosenberg
- Valderrama
- Bagnall
- Fair
- Lehman
- Ross
- Vogel
- Barnes
- Feldmark
- Lewis
- Ruff
- Watson
- Bartlett
- Fennell
- Long, J.
- Ruth
- Wells
- Behler
- Foley
- Lopez
- Sample-Hughes
- White Holland
- Bhandari
- Forbes
- Martinez
- Schindler
- Wilkins
- Boafo
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- McCaskill
- Shetty
- Williams
- Boyce
- Guyton
- Mireku-North
- Simmons
- Wilson
- Cardin
- Guzzone
- Moon
- Simpson
- Wims
- Chang
- Harrison
- Moreno
- Smith
- Wolek
- Charkoudian
- Healey
- Odom
- Solomon
- Woods
- Clippinger
- Hill
- Palakovich Carr
- Spiegel
- Woorman
- Coley
- Holmes
- Pasteur
- Stein
- Wu
- Conaway
- Ivey
- Patterson
- Stewart
- Young
- Crosby
- Johnson, A.
- Phillips
- Stinnett
- Ziegler
NO: 36
Actions
- Apr 09, 2026 | Senate
- Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- Apr 08, 2026 | Senate
- Referred Rules
- Apr 07, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (100-36)
- Apr 06, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- Favorable with Amendments {933027/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Feb 02, 2026 | House
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - House - Committee - JudiciaryPDF
- Video: JudiciaryHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Vormelker, Will (Maryland Judiciary)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Outlaw, Lucius
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Fernandez, Rafael (Recording Industry Association of America)
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Brown, Kirsten (Maryland State's Attorneys' Association)
- JUD Testimony, UNF -- Gibson, Rich (Howard County State's Attorney's Office)
- JUD Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Bates, Ivan (State's Attorney for Baltimore City)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Gonzalez, Greg (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Miller, Montana (Recording Academy)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Amprey, Marlon
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- McAnally, Erin (Songwriters of North America with Artist Rights Alliance, Music Artists Coalition, and Black Music Action Coalition)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- LaPolt, Dina (LaPolt Law, P.C.)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Spaccasi, Olivia (ACLU-MD)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Nielson, Erik
- JUD In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Walotsky, Phil (Free Our Art)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Holofcener, Adam (Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Kemerer, Hannibal (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Phillips, N. Scott (Legislative Black Caucus of MD)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Martinez, Ashanti (MD Legislative Latino Caucus)
- JUD Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
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