---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Support - Guidelines"
description: "Child Support - Guidelines"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 946"
citation: "Maryland HB 946 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cox", "Dumais", "J. Lewis", "Malone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83e763e6-69d5-4e09-8d55-d526ba7fb03b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0946?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "03faa74ed6fe045ef59a1e0ea2c1817c09a35518638710739aab7c6c53d06534"
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 946 (2020) — Child Support - Guidelines

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Child Support - Guidelines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_383_hb0946t.pdf)
2. **First - Child Support - Guidelines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0946f.pdf)
3. **Third - Child Support - Guidelines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0946t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cox — primary (person)
- Dumais — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Malone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-05** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 383 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83e763e6-69d5-4e09-8d55-d526ba7fb03b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).