---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Alterations"
description: "Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 495"
citation: "Maryland HB 495 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Embry", "Foley", "Guyton", "Kelly", "Lehman", "Moon", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Simpson", "Solomon", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Vogel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-30"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c91f5152-075c-457c-8c45-a2224521acec"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0495?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2707f8a18169527f85446de1a4f7d986aa16718179f373e7c29699bc7aae9ee4"
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 495 (2023) — Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_732_hb0495t.pdf)
2. **First - Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0495f.pdf)
3. **Third - Early Childhood Development - Child Care Scholarship Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0495t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c91f5152-075c-457c-8c45-a2224521acec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).