---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Support - Payment Incentive Program Expansion Act of 2018"
description: "Child Support - Payment Incentive Program Expansion Act of 2018"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1554"
citation: "Maryland HB 1554 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Advertising", "Electronic Government", "Human Services", "Department of", "Job Training", "Penalties and Sentences", "Support of Dependents", "Unemployment", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Lewis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84cadbfe-2ec8-45e7-b9aa-8e0be7d6dbf0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1554&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "1cc0b510eaca449992898a0cb10f49dde57cc9f0bfc38072506a731f0cdee96f"
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 1554 (2018) — Child Support - Payment Incentive Program Expansion Act of 2018

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1554f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-1) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84cadbfe-2ec8-45e7-b9aa-8e0be7d6dbf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).