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type: "Bill"
title: "Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach"
description: "Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 859"
citation: "Maryland HB 859 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Solomon", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b7baf14-d902-4325-a408-e40526bc387c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0859?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "df8540a27595bd1c137105d799a59f3ce4d6ef900f94f79e018e4546cf5f81dc"
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 859 (2025) — Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_679_hb0859t.pdf)
2. **First - Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach and Qualifying Nonprofit Satellite Organizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0859f.pdf)
3. **Third - Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0859t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **10929** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-30** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b7baf14-d902-4325-a408-e40526bc387c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).