---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights"
description: "Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 787"
citation: "Maryland SB 787 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Foster Care", "Human Rights", "Human Services", "Department of", "Juvenile Causes", "Social Services", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e3c86cc-3965-48d4-89e5-e4193b79fc19"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB787&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "143d71403b70b3e1813e142e397626f89d38c7ad8b55c56822aa7f3183db2d70"
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 787 (2018) — Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights

## 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/sb/sb0787f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {778577/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e3c86cc-3965-48d4-89e5-e4193b79fc19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).