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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Kinship Care"
description: "Family Law - Kinship Care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 708"
citation: "Maryland SB 708 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0c9ac50-36e3-4668-86c4-60d0df2f2fcf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0708?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6a5eabde52d429a3516188bd123c9c0557046f5f42f2bf759e6e14ff4cdcd385"
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 708 (2024) — Family Law - Kinship Care
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Family Law - Kinship Care** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_429_sb0708t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Kinship Care** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0708f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Kinship Care** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0708t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-31** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0c9ac50-36e3-4668-86c4-60d0df2f2fcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).