Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/md/2026/hb-1305.md

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Child Welfare System - Reporting"
+description: "State Child Welfare System - Reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1305"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1305 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ebersole", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Simmons", "Wilson", "Wims", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-12"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a753d607-dc99-462d-9033-23e29c8d2837"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1305?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "b4940bffef273f654db105884a2c5da0c02aaf2ead7c5689ec2a9a4849b495de"
+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 1305 (2026) — State Child Welfare System - Reporting
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Child Welfare System - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_723_hb1305t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Child Welfare System - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1305f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Child Welfare System - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1305t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Wilson — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-12** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-11** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-03-11** Hearing 3/11 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2026-03-11** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-03-11** Hearing 3/11 at 1:45 p.m.
+- **2026-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-19** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-24** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a753d607-dc99-462d-9033-23e29c8d2837`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+