---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts - Parental Accommodations"
description: "Courts - Parental Accommodations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1440"
citation: "Maryland HB 1440 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Conaway", "Kaufman", "R. Lewis", "Simmons", "Stinnett", "Taylor", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a4c2824-2b98-4ddb-9ce8-923e5c896a9a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1440?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "566e7170c469a260c1b20b87d2a228a2bebd64e1b333e3e5dbd9c0debf04fa2f"
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 1440 (2025) — Courts - Parental Accommodations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Courts - Parental Accommodations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_137_hb1440t.pdf)
2. **First - Courts - Parental Accommodations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1440f.pdf)
3. **Third - Courts - Parental Accommodations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1440t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2025-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a4c2824-2b98-4ddb-9ce8-923e5c896a9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).