Maryland House Bill 720 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: Introduced on January 30 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-30 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Repealing the prohibition against a person using or possessing with intent to use drug paraphernalia to inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled dangerous substance; repealing the prohibition against a person delivering or selling, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; repealing the prohibition against a person possessing or distributing controlled paraphernalia under certain circumstances; etc.

Criminal Law - Drug Paraphernalia for Administration - Decriminalization

Del. David Moon [D]	Del. Gabriel Acevero [D]	Del. Curtis Anderson [D]	Del. Tony Bridges [D]
Del. Alfred Carr [D]	Del. Lorig Charkoudian [D]	Del. Bonnie Cullison [D]	Del. Eric Ebersole [D]
Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]	Del. Marc Korman [D]	Del. Lesley Lopez [D]	Del. Nick Mosby [D]
Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Emily Shetty [D]	Del. Jen Terrasa [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-30	House	Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-30	House	First Reading Judiciary

HB720 (Carry Over) 2020-01-30 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
SB704 (Crossfiled) 2020-02-06 - Hearing 3/03 at 12:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Criminal Law	5	619	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Criminal Law	5	620	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0720?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0720f.pdf