---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children in Need of Assistance - Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (Family First Prevention Services Act)"
description: "Children in Need of Assistance - Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (Family First Prevention Services Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1043"
citation: "Maryland SB 1043 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Assessments", "Foster Care", "Hearings", "Housing", "Juvenile Causes", "Medical Treatments", "Mental and Behavioral Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ad8c9a5-ca6e-41af-9e46-059712405fa5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1043&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "645fb94d5860277bff19176ba63886c32087379aa9b56f252bb4200462ad2a50"
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 1043 (2019) — Children in Need of Assistance - Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (Family First Prevention Services 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb1043f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/19 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2019-04-03** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ad8c9a5-ca6e-41af-9e46-059712405fa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).