---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
description: "Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "Maryland SB 400 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gile"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9286cab1-cf2a-4ae9-9fa2-7b45c3883990"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0400?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d9957f4ad3748b5bea7f52bd8fbc915357106d8f2bb7428ed147c06429ff39bf"
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 SB 400 (2025) — Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_344_sb0400e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0400e.pdf)
3. **First - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0400f.pdf)
4. **Third - Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0400t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gile — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9286cab1-cf2a-4ae9-9fa2-7b45c3883990`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).