---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations"
description: "Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1300"
citation: "Maryland HB 1300 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-03-09"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f8b6ea3-e8d0-428f-9997-750d8e73f910"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1300?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "81b84574b5f26f9d15021a591919d06c1ecb026e741c1c149b3219329d5ece60"
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 1300 (2023) — Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_144_hb1300t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1300f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Child Care - Criminal Background Investigations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1300t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chair, Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-09** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** Motion Rules Suspend for Late Introduction (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2023-03-17** Motion Rules Suspend to Refer (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2023-03-17** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-24** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-07** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2023-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 7:05 p.m.
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 144 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f8b6ea3-e8d0-428f-9997-750d8e73f910`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).