---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration"
description: "Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 150"
citation: "Maryland HB 150 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-07"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1aff6224-b551-494b-89a2-80cd21d1967b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0150?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "25fe1740cddfd825acf2c69e824672aa55c35c7c24e142d048e82573d006e34a"
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 150 (2025) — Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_319_hb0150t.pdf)
2. **First - Child Care Centers – Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement – Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0150f.pdf)
3. **Third - Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0150t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **40–7** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **108–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-07** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1aff6224-b551-494b-89a2-80cd21d1967b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).