---
type: "Bill"
title: "Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations"
description: "Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 359"
citation: "Maryland SB 359 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbe4cf47-73c7-4308-98be-93adb8b67930"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0359?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c9f7325422fb673c12ff712ac3b3c1069a53fd1fe148bf99529196e0901822ab"
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 359 (2025) — Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_239_sb0359t.pdf)
2. **First - Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0359f.pdf)
3. **Third - Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0359t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **138–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **136–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/29 at 10:30 a.m.
- **2025-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11** Referred Ways and Means Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled (Ways and Means)
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators King, Benson and Bailey)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators King, Benson and Bailey)
- **2025-04-07** Motion Recede (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbe4cf47-73c7-4308-98be-93adb8b67930`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).