---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
description: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 497"
citation: "Maryland HB 497 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Grammer", "Kaufman", "Pasteur", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Stewart", "Stinnett", "Taylor", "Toles", "Tomlinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6cff263-31b8-4aff-b044-916c164d40c8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0497?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "af4c1e023079704a3de94f3154a2416975d56b1889786ac08c04f187293642c0"
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 497 (2025) — Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_343_hb0497t.pdf)
2. **First - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0497f.pdf)
3. **Third - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0497t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Rereferred to Finance
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Gile) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6cff263-31b8-4aff-b044-916c164d40c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).