---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes"
description: "Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 833"
citation: "Maryland SB 833 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abfe2838-b98b-4756-aff7-9fd8daa8b173"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0833?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "de8539ae33b062998b0c50469fa7a78894c25df5eeb87350626ffde305487b7e"
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 833 (2025) — Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_528_sb0833t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Treatment Foster Care Homes - Child Care Stipends for Private Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0833f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0833t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `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`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Appropriations `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 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 528 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abfe2838-b98b-4756-aff7-9fd8daa8b173`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).