---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations"
description: "Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 548"
citation: "Maryland SB 548 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles", "Folden", "Henson", "James", "Love", "McKay", "Muse", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fe5d9d5-75e5-4c84-a37b-c375912f4989"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0548?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "396770c34ed6e17e63148c0e0e3c77d75a7245f6a8b48a28d873ad8e0936a699"
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 548 (2025) — Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_484_sb0548t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0548f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0548t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles — primary (person)
- Folden — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-06** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/07 at 10:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fe5d9d5-75e5-4c84-a37b-c375912f4989`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).