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type: "Bill"
title: "Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding"
description: "Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 503"
citation: "Maryland SB 503 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/757aa864-338f-4105-9d42-70776a1224b5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0503?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "a898e79b2b6b7b183e49afe8ba0fce8ea24e59c1714db26d893c27ae6f43f25b"
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 503 (2026) — Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_700_sb0503t.pdf)
2. **First - Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0503f.pdf)
3. **Third - Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0503t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **12112** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **420** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- King — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Motion Special Order until 3/6 (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2026-03-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-16** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2026-03-25** Hearing 3/25 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2026-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/757aa864-338f-4105-9d42-70776a1224b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).