---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations"
description: "Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1191"
citation: "Maryland HB 1191 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Bartlett", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Crutchfield", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Nkongolo", "Pasteur", "Qi", "Rose", "Schmidt", "Taveras", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c66d4c56-7976-46fb-bae7-927c4826a57a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1191?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3b7d2ba3300eadda97056ba9aa7a62e69838d398f2c968f7a6f9f7d8a896722e"
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 1191 (2025) — Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_483_hb1191t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1191f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1191t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1191 — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Nkongolo — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wivell — 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.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 483 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c66d4c56-7976-46fb-bae7-927c4826a57a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).