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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist"
+description: "Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 849"
+citation: "Maryland HB 849 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Amprey", "Behler", "Boafo", "Buckel", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "McCaskill", "Mireku-North", "Moreno", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Queen", "Roberson", "Ruff", "Stinnett", "Taylor", "Vogel", "Wells", "White Holland", "Wilkins", "Williams", "Wims", "Young"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1d98d95-0d02-4a47-b89a-8417f395eee3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0849?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "d7998834872256d8c087bbefb3dcc7f8383fcc20e321f288216b7f5575000bb2"
+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 849 (2026) — Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_594_hb0849t.pdf)
+2. **First - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0849f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0849t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **123–13** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Addison — primary (person)
+- Amprey — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Boafo — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Moreno — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Roberson — primary (person)
+- Ruff — primary (person)
+- Stinnett — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Reassigned to Ways and Means Appropriations
+- **2026-02-13** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
+- **2026-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-15** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `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 594 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1d98d95-0d02-4a47-b89a-8417f395eee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+