republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2026/hb-849.md

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Bill	Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist	Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2026	HB 849	Maryland HB 849 (2026)	bill		enacted	Addison Amprey Behler Boafo Buckel Ebersole Feldmark Kaiser Kaufman McCaskill Mireku-North Moreno Palakovich Carr Pasteur Patterson Phillips Queen Roberson Ruff Stinnett Taylor Vogel Wells White Holland Wilkins Williams Wims Young	3	15	2	2026-02-04	2026-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f1d98d95-0d02-4a47-b89a-8417f395eee3	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0849?ys=2026RS	d7998834872256d8c087bbefb3dcc7f8383fcc20e321f288216b7f5575000bb2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 849 (2026) — Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 43–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 123–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Addison — primary (person)
• Amprey — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Boafo — primary (person)
• Buckel — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• McCaskill — primary (person)
• Mireku-North — primary (person)
• Moreno — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Pasteur — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Phillips — primary (person)
• Queen — primary (person)
• Roberson — primary (person)
• Ruff — primary (person)
• Stinnett — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Vogel — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)
• Williams — primary (person)
• Wims — primary (person)
• Young — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-04 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2026-02-12 Reassigned to Ways and Means Appropriations
• 2026-02-13 Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
• 2026-03-09 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2026-03-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2026-03-12 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2026-03-15 Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
• 2026-04-10 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-04-10 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-04-10 Second Reading Passed
• 2026-04-13 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2026-04-13 Returned Passed
• 2026-05-26 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1d98d95-0d02-4a47-b89a-8417f395eee3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).