---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Department of Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Funding (Maryland Cares for Kids Act)"
description: "State Department of Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Funding (Maryland Cares for Kids Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 315"
citation: "Maryland HB 315 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Board of", "Education", "State Department of", "Food", "Prices", "Reimbursement Rates", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hixson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9b6cf7c-f9f2-4e72-a1b0-6f405a91b238"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB315&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "17c53bd0e308db9cffe3e44d739e297a95c846174f8af4ec904963409eea3632"
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 315 (2018) — State Department of Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Funding (Maryland Cares for Kids Act)

## 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/hb0315f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **118–20** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **117–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hixson — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {905760/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (118-20) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {829936/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (117-20) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9b6cf7c-f9f2-4e72-a1b0-6f405a91b238`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).