---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund (Thrive by Three Fund)"
description: "Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund (Thrive by Three Fund)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1685"
citation: "Maryland HB 1685 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Children", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Committees and Commissions", "Comptroller", "Counties", "Grants", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Interest", "Minors", "Municipal Corporations", "Pregnancy", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Treasurers", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/336aa405-9ce1-421f-be6f-41ae137d971f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1685&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "bbe6c854b2b4b49379519596700949d87c6ef0d77362b68afeb29b737c8ed212"
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 1685 (2018) — Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund (Thrive by Three Fund)

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1685f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {726384/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (136-1) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Rereferred to Finance
- **2018-04-09** Hearing 4/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/336aa405-9ce1-421f-be6f-41ae137d971f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).