---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child in Need of Assistance – Guardianship by Local Department – Financial Accounts"
description: "Child in Need of Assistance – Guardianship by Local Department – Financial Accounts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 732"
citation: "Maryland SB 732 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "Children", "Courts", "Estates and Trusts", "Financial Institutions", "Juvenile Causes", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Personal Property", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f366454-c84f-4593-8e20-72dd1e53b381"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB732&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0d36a56ea0dfe3f9595e79469da89b6176bcc38327314f472f1f58e53a9527c4"
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 732 (2019) — Child in Need of Assistance – Guardianship by Local Department – Financial Accounts

## 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/sb/sb0732f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 3/06 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {168379/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f366454-c84f-4593-8e20-72dd1e53b381`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).