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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights"
+description: "Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 787"
+citation: "Maryland SB 787 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family Law", "Foster Care", "Human Rights", "Human Services", "Department of", "Juvenile Causes", "Social Services", "Youth"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e3c86cc-3965-48d4-89e5-e4193b79fc19"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB787&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "143d71403b70b3e1813e142e397626f89d38c7ad8b55c56822aa7f3183db2d70"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 787 (2018) — Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0787f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {778577/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e3c86cc-3965-48d4-89e5-e4193b79fc19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+