---
type: "Bill"
title: "Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs"
description: "Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 809"
citation: "Maryland HB 809 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Arentz", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Fair", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Griffith", "Guyton", "Hartman", "Hornberger", "Kaufman", "M. Morgan", "McComas", "Moon", "Nawrocki", "Pippy", "Reilly", "S. Johnson", "Schmidt", "Shetty", "Valentine", "Wilkins", "Wilson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e1a66f1-dcc4-46fd-a100-84d11db7ec37"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0809?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8fc95f7f0e89642f184aa42e03e117678118f9f504f631db3ed4c2b88ce44f02"
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 809 (2025) — Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_470_hb0809e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0809e.pdf)
3. **First - Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Maximum Number of Children - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0809f.pdf)
4. **Third - Out-of-Home Placement Providers - Individuals Enrolled in Higher Education and Vocational Training Programs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0809t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-27** Motion Special Order until 3/28 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e1a66f1-dcc4-46fd-a100-84d11db7ec37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).