---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children With Disabilities and Child Care Providers - Dispute Resolution Process"
description: "Children With Disabilities and Child Care Providers - Dispute Resolution Process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 456"
citation: "Maryland HB 456 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Alternative Dispute Resolution", "Child Care", "Disabilities", "Discrimination", "Education", "State Board of", "Education", "State Department of", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce90c775-e031-4d76-a09f-5a17d925ce12"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB456&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "177a16185da9c866dede5b13a0004c124a99cb833aede131c460202a4670e5be"
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 456 (2017) — Children With Disabilities and Child Care Providers - Dispute Resolution Process

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0456f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **126–13** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kaiser — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {275262/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (126-13) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 713 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce90c775-e031-4d76-a09f-5a17d925ce12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).