republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/sb-787.md

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Maryland SB 787 (2018) — Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Simonaire — primary (person)
• Bates — cosponsor (person)
• Kagan — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Salling — cosponsor (person)
• Waugh — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)
• Zucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-05 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2018-02-07 Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Favorable with Amendments {778577/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-06 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-08 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-03-09 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-04-03 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-07 Third Reading Passed (138-0) passage
• 2018-04-09 Returned Passed
• 2018-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e3c86cc-3965-48d4-89e5-e4193b79fc19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).