---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care Subsidy Program - Alternative Methodology - Report"
description: "Child Care Subsidy Program - Alternative Methodology - Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 293"
citation: "Maryland SB 293 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Children", "Child Care", "Committees and Commissions", "Education", "State Department of", "General Assembly", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39e3e219-8510-47d2-be66-727230773be7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB293&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5908ab56115678892bf3560e797f14be4343edd9b5e2f44d7c1dcb63d8a94027"
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 293 (2017) — Child Care Subsidy Program - Alternative Methodology - Report

## 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/sb/sb0293f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **125–12** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (125-12) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 740 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39e3e219-8510-47d2-be66-727230773be7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).