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Bill would form workgroup to study Maryland’s extreme risk protective orders

House Judiciary Committee · March 13, 2026
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HB 15-41 would create a temporary cross-agency workgroup to evaluate how Maryland's extreme risk protective order (ERPO) laws are being used and to recommend improvements; sponsor said the bill does not change the law but is meant to identify barriers to effective use.

Delegate Bandari introduced HB 15-41 as a study bill to examine how Maryland's extreme risk protective order (ERPO) framework operates across agencies and whether the law is functioning as intended.

Bandari said the bill would convene public-health, law-enforcement, judicial and mental-health experts — including the secretary of health, the attorney…

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