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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
+description: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 497"
+citation: "Maryland HB 497 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stewart", "Stinnett", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-20"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6cff263-31b8-4aff-b044-916c164d40c8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0497?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "af4c1e023079704a3de94f3154a2416975d56b1889786ac08c04f187293642c0"
+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 HB 497 (2025) — Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_343_hb0497t.pdf)
+2. **First - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0497f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0497t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Stinnett — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-07** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Gile) Adopted
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6cff263-31b8-4aff-b044-916c164d40c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+