---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Investment Program - Child Support"
description: "Family Investment Program - Child Support"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 881"
citation: "Maryland HB 881 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Jones", "Forbes", "J. Lewis", "Kaufman", "Lopez", "McCaskill", "Shetty", "Smith", "Solomon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1e25f59-70e9-4165-9455-025ee6d4de3f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0881?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "da98dafc48f8fd6ea0f3a41e97c58036dacd3afb4ec9e8ae2cfc3089ac5129ba"
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 881 (2025) — Family Investment Program - Child Support

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Family Investment Program - Child Support** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_373_hb0881t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Investment Program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits - Child Support** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0881f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Investment Program - Child Support** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0881t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **106–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Motion Reconsider Third Reading (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 373 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1e25f59-70e9-4165-9455-025ee6d4de3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).