Senate Panel Votes Out Use of Force Bill, Completes Police Reform Package

2/27/21

By Hannah Gaskill, Maryland Matters

After nearly 30 hours of voting and two weeks of impassioned debate, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee passed the final bill in its sweeping police reform package out of the committee late Thursday night.

The package is expected to be presented on the Senate floor on Friday afternoon.

Judicial Proceedings Chairman William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery) thanked his members for pushing through what he described as “the most difficult problem set I think any of us have worked on since we’ve been in the General Assembly.”

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