---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure"
description: "Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1209"
citation: "Maryland HB 1209 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grammer", "McComas"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfac7ffb-65b5-4041-9bb0-41cb16d45ec1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1209?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "537180b54c178903d3ab282bf0db9484b2c8f6d4f821b65d8244f657855967a2"
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 1209 (2025) — Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_485_hb1209t.pdf)
2. **First - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1209f.pdf)
3. **Third - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reports and Records - Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1209t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grammer — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/20 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 485 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfac7ffb-65b5-4041-9bb0-41cb16d45ec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).