---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Kinship Caregivers"
description: "Family Law - Kinship Caregivers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1212"
citation: "Maryland HB 1212 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Age of Majority", "Caregivers", "Foster Care", "Parents and Guardians", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McComas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6568e81e-5375-4af2-93fb-9120207f4b17"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1212&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b1e005fc35865ce4af55ca20cd0cd075324f525f35942c405e1ec6aee4ad1d5a"
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 1212 (2019) — Family Law - Kinship Caregivers

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1212f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McComas — primary (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-15** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 77 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6568e81e-5375-4af2-93fb-9120207f4b17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).