---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth"
description: "Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 255"
citation: "Maryland SB 255 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1caadacf-2acf-4fa8-948e-f8f72423df5b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0255?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0b0edfd891d8c5512452eecc7a9dca4894149f2db084ba97fefa765fbe629719"
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 255 (2023) — Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_378_sb0255t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0255f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0255t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Health and Government Operations Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1caadacf-2acf-4fa8-948e-f8f72423df5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).