---
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: "SB 943"
citation: "Maryland SB 943 (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: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71e3e37d-5ef2-4820-9016-95c7a34f46eb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB943&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b14e876ad16e75f61481a2aa00faca455f0c616299c6f06925f389a59f257bce"
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 943 (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/sb/sb0943f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **115–24** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {754937/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {965160/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (115-24) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 714 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71e3e37d-5ef2-4820-9016-95c7a34f46eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).