Maryland House Bill 613 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-3)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-01-27 - Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appears in the filing, subject to a certain exception; requiring a court to redact identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault from an existing filing on a written request; requiring the Supreme Court of Maryland to adopt a certain rule regarding the redaction of certain information; etc.

Criminal Procedure - Protection of Identity of Victim of Sexual Assault

Del. Michele Guyton [D]	Sen. Dalya Attar [D]	Del. Heather Bagnall [D]	Del. Sandy Bartlett [D]
Del. Jon Cardin [D]	Del. Debra Davis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Embry [D]	Del. Linda Foley [D]
Del. Catherine Forbes [D]	Del. Andrea Harrison [D]	Del. Dana Jones [D]	Del. Aaron Kaufman [D]
Del. Mary Lehman [D]	Del. Robbyn Lewis [D]	Del. Lesley Lopez [D]	Del. April Fleming Miller [R]
Del. Todd Morgan [R]	Del. Edith Patterson [D]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]	Del. Scott Phillips [D]
Del. April Rose [R]	Del. Sheila Ruth [D]	Del. Matthew Schindler [D]	Del. Emily Shetty [D]
Del. Stephanie Smith [D]	Del. Dana Stein [D]	Del. Deni Taveras [D]	Del. Jen Terrasa [D]
Del. Kriselda Valderrama [D]	Del. Melissa Wells [D]	Del. Jennifer White Holland [D]	Del. Greg Wims [D]
Del. Sarah Wolek [D]	Del. Teresa Woorman [D]	Del. Chao Wu [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-27	House	Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
2025-01-23	House	First Reading Judiciary

HB613 (Carry Over) 2025-01-27 - Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Criminal Procedure	11	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0613?ys=2025RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0613f.pdf