---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations"
description: "Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 785"
citation: "Maryland HB 785 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Hill", "McCaskill", "Terrasa", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ef8a360-08c9-45f7-98f7-17909f1797d4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0785?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b3a702b2c4dfaf6aa3931e596c58bcb46e7d81a144ec6c8d1b20ff1ebd7bb77d"
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 785 (2025) — Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_375_hb0785t.pdf)
2. **First - Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0785f.pdf)
3. **Third - Common Ownership Communities and Zoning Authorities - Operation of Family Child Care Homes - Limitations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0785t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **99–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `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 375 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ef8a360-08c9-45f7-98f7-17909f1797d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).