---
type: "Bill"
title: "Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age"
description: "Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 662"
citation: "Maryland HB 662 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldmark", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Lopez", "McCaskill", "Pasteur", "Patterson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3c2abc3-4243-47cf-95ef-7c30230b2153"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0662?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a5ea3c93b4fabf32695847baf48f37387733619a36bace82dbef8c036947bf68"
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 662 (2024) — Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_37_hb0662t.pdf)
2. **First - Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0662f.pdf)
3. **Third - Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0662t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **41–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3c2abc3-4243-47cf-95ef-7c30230b2153`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).