---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care Subsidy Program – Unemployment – Eligibility"
description: "Child Care Subsidy Program – Unemployment – Eligibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 941"
citation: "Maryland HB 941 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Children", "Child Care", "Demographics", "Education", "State Department of", "Rules and Regulations", "State Aid", "Time", "Unemployment", "Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6dd345a-883e-4d06-b796-0d7d2ef525cf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB941&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "bbb5b3d91582263bf46f9bc2884d76ea4e56320b2c467645b08876b48a94d6a2"
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 941 (2018) — Child Care Subsidy Program – Unemployment – Eligibility

## 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/hb0941f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {194164/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {609035/1 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 (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6dd345a-883e-4d06-b796-0d7d2ef525cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).