HB0032 • 2026

Local Law Enforcement Vehicles - Requirements - Automated External Defibrillators

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Delegate Simmons
Last action: 2026-01-29
Official status: In the House - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
Effective date: 2026-10-01

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Local Law Enforcement Vehicles - Requirements - Automated External Defibrillators

Requiring all local law enforcement vehicles to carry an automated external defibrillator (AED); and requiring a local law enforcement agency to maintain the functionality of an AED carried by a local law enforcement vehicle.

What This Bill Does

Requiring all local law enforcement vehicles to carry an automated external defibrillator (AED); and requiring a local law enforcement agency to maintain the functionality of an AED carried by a local law enforcement vehicle.

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Bill History

2026-01-29 House
Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
2026-01-14 House
First Reading Judiciary
2025-10-22 House
Pre-filed
Maryland General Assembly
Text - First - Local Law Enforcement Vehicles - Requirements - Automated External Defibrillators

Official Summary Text

Requiring all local law enforcement vehicles to carry an automated external defibrillator (AED); and requiring a local law enforcement agency to maintain the functionality of an AED carried by a local law enforcement vehicle.

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EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
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*hb0032*

HOUSE BILL 32
E4 6lr1290
(PRE–FILED)
By: Delegate Simmons
Requested: October 22, 2025
Introduced and read first time: January 14, 2026
Assigned to: Judiciary

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ACT concerning 1

Local Law Enforcement Vehicles – Requirements – Automated External 2
Defibrillators 3

FOR the purpose of requiring local law enforcement vehicles to carry automated external 4
defibrillators; requiring a local law enforcement agency to maintain the functionality 5
of an automated external defibrillator carried by a local law enforcement vehicle; and 6
generally relating to requirements for local law enforcement vehicles. 7

BY adding to 8
Article – Public Safety 9
Section 3–510 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 12

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14

Article – Public Safety 15

3–510. 16

(A) IN THIS SECTION, “AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR” MEANS A 17
MEDICAL HEART MONITOR AND DEFIBRILLATOR DEVICE THAT: 18

(1) IS CLEARED FOR MARKET BY THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG 19
ADMINISTRATION; 20

(2) RECOGNIZES THE PRESEN CE OR ABSENCE OF VEN TRICULAR 21
FIBRILLATION OR RAPID VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; 22
2 HOUSE BILL 32

(3) DETERMINES, WITHOUT INTERVENTION BY AN OPERATOR , 1
WHETHER DEFIBRILLATION SHOULD BE PERFORMED; 2

(4) ON DETERMINING THAT D EFIBRILLATION SHOULD BE 3
PERFORMED, AUTOMATICALLY CHARGES; AND 4

(5) (I) REQUIRES OPERATOR INT ERVENTION TO DELIVER THE 5
ELECTRICAL IMPULSE; OR 6

(II) AUTOMATICALLY CONTINU ES WITH DELIVERY OF THE 7
ELECTRICAL IMPULSE. 8

(B) EACH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHI CLE SHALL CARRY AN 9
AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR. 10

(C) A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY S HALL MAINTAIN THE 11
FUNCTIONALITY OF EAC H AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR DESCRIBED IN 12
SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION. 13

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 14
October 1, 2026. 15