2026 MGA bill tracking
- admin542275
- Jan 24
- 7 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
Below are legislative measures the coalition is tracking this session. The Maryland General
Assembly meets for 90 days, from January 14th to April 13th.
Priorities of CPMC as a coalition include:
● Prevent child abuse and neglect
● Improve data collection, access, and analysis
● Resolve the current out-of-home placement crisis
● Counter attempts to dilute child safety
● Maximize services for youth aging out of care and supportive transitions to independence
● Identify better recruitment, support, and retention practices of the child welfare workforce
● Place the safety and wellbeing of all children – including infants, adolescents, and older youth - as priorities in intervention and permanency efforts
● Increase resources for public and private programs to authentically support families and promote family preservation efforts
● Hold child-serving agencies accountable for not prioritizing child safety and wellbeing
The positions of CPMC as a coalition are listed in blue (support, support with amendments, oppose, letter of information provided). Bills without positions are being monitored and are posted for sharing with the potential of CPMC later taking a position. Information on hearings, amendment updates, committee outcomes, and/or floor votes will be posted most evenings.
HJ0004 - Social Services Administration - Accountability - Protecting Maryland's Most Vulnerable
HB0023 - Motor Vehicle Administration - Identification Cards - Issuance to Minors - support
House Environment & Transportation Committee hearing 2/5
HB0025 - Family Law - Grandparent Visitation - coalition provided an information only letter to the committee
House Judiciary Committee hearing 1/29
HB0048 - Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act) - oppose
House Judiciary Committee hearing 1/29
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 1/20 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings, In the Senate - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
House Judiciary hearing 1/29
HB0281 - Family Law - Child Care Providers - Criminal Background Investigations - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 2/5
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/3
House Judiciary hearing 2/5
HB0329 / SB0081 - Criminal Law - School Resource Officers - Prohibition on Sexual Activity with Students - support
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 1/27 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings - In the Senate - Third Reading Passed (44-0)
House Judiciary hearing 2/24
HB0384 - Child Support - Capacity of Minors to Initiate and Defend an Action - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/5
HB0389 / SB0296 - Juveniles - Detention and Confinement - Limitations on Juvenile Contact with Incarcerated Adults - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/5
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/4
HB0396 / SB0402 - Residential Child Care Programs - Education of Children and Training of Child and Youth Care Practitioners - coalition provided an information only letter to the committee
House Ways & Means hearing 2/11 - In the House - Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means; In the House - Third Reading Passed (120-0)
Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment hearing 3/4
HB0475 - Department of Juvenile Services - Employees - Prohibited Convictions (Juvenile Offender Protection Act) - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/12
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/10
House Judiciary hearing 2/11
HB0570 - Foster Care - Adjacent County Applicants and Reporting Requirements - partial support
House Judiciary hearing 2/19
HB0592 - Task Force to Study Forced Infant Separation from Incarcerated Individuals - support
House Judiciary & Health hearing 3/3
HB0628 - Human Services - Universal Basic Income for Transition-Age Youth Program - Establishment - support
House Appropriations hearing 3/10
House Ways & Means hearing 2/18
Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment hearing 2/18; Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
House Judiciary hearing 2/17
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 1/22 - Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings, In the Senate - Third Reading Passed (43-0)
HB0679 - Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors - oppose
House Health hearing 2/18
HB0693 - Civil Actions - Distribution of Obscene Material to Minors - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 3/4
HB0710 - Criminal Law - Display of Obscene Material to Minors - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 3/5
HB0722 - Child Sexual Abuse Claims - Doctrine of Charitable Immunity - Abrogation - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/19
HB0768 / SB0658 - Department of Human Services - Benefits for Children in Custody - Alterations - support
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/26
House Appropriations hearing 3/10
HB0769 / SB0018 - State Board of Social Work Examiners - Conditional License to Practice Social Work - Revisions - monitoring
House Health hearing 2/18
Senate Finance hearing 2/10 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance, In the Senate - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
HB0818 - Higher Education - Foster Care Recipients and Homeless Youth - Tuition Exemption and Associated Benefits - support
House Appropriations hearing 3/3
House Judiciary hearing 2/19
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/26
HB0890 / SB0650 - Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations ("Know Before They Knock" Family Right to Notice Act) - oppose
House Judiciary hearing 2/19
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/26
HB0908 - Civil Actions - Failure to Restrict Distribution of Sexual Material Harmful to Minors - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 3/4
HB0915 - Workgroup on Aging Out of Foster Care - support (CPMC priority bill)
House Appropriations hearing 3/19
HB0923 - Family Law - Equity Courts - Care and Custody of Children (Uniform Nondiscrimination in Treatment and Evidence (UNITE) Act) - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB0924 - Child Exploitation Material - Civil and Criminal Actions (Safe Kids Act)
House Judiciary hearing 3/4
HB0980 / SB0996 - Family Law and State Government - Child Protection and the Office of the Child Welfare Ombudsman (Kanaiyah's Law) - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB0982 / SB0864 - Higher Education - Tuition Exemption for Foster Care Recipients - Eligibility - support
House Appropriations hearing 3/3
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 3/11
HB1005 - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting (Survivor Reporting Reform Act) - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB1034 - Child Care Entities - Child Abuse and Neglect - Training and Reporting Requirements - support
House Ways & Means hearing 3/4
HB1046 - School and School-Sponsored Activities - Report of Suspected Abuse or Neglect - Parental Notification - monitoring
House Ways & Means hearing 3/4
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
Senate Judicial Proceedings and Budget & Taxation hearing 2/19
HB1092 / SB0870 - Maryland Department of Health - Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Beds - Capacity in Prince George's County and Report - support
House Health hearing 3/4
Senate Finance hearing 3/10
HB1118 / SB0891 - Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Mental Health Conditions - support
House Health hearing 3/5
Senate Finance hearing 2/27
House Health hearing 3/4
Senate Finance hearing 3/3
HB1168 / SB0685 - Local School Systems - Sexual Abuse and Sexual Misconduct - Response Policy and After-Action Review - monitoring
House Ways & Means hearing 3/10
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 3/4
HB1181 - Family Law - Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Voluntary Placement Agreements - support
House Appropriations and Health Committees hearing 3/3
HB1198 - Civil Actions - Coerced Debt - Debtor Protections - support
House Judiciary hearing 3/11
House Judiciary & Health hearing 3/4
Senate Judicial Proceedings & Finance hearing 3/10
HB1258 - Child Placement Services - Advertising by Unlicensed Person - Prohibition - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB1272 - Family Law - Kinship Care - support (CPMC priority bill)
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB1290 - Children In Need of Assistance - Proceedings - Child's Right to be Present - support (CPMC priority bill)
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB1292 - Child Advocacy Centers - Continuity of Care Standards for Health Care Professionals and Reports of Violations - partial support
House Appropriations hearing 3/11
HB1294 - Criminal Law - Child Sexual Abuse Material - Artificial Intelligence Software - monitoring
House Judiciary hearing 3/5
HB 1305 - State Child Welfare System - Reporting - support
House Ways & Means hearing 3/11
HB1326 / SB0447 - Child Abuse and Neglect – Disclosure of Reports and Records - support with amendment
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/11 - Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings, In the Senate - Third Reading Passed (40-0)
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
HB1342 - Public Schools - School Security Personnel - Immigration Investigation and Enforcement - monitoring
House Judiciary and Ways & Means hearing 2/24 -Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary; Third Reading Passed (90-34)
HB1348 - Human Trafficking - Reports to Regional Navigators and Prosecutions - Authorization - support
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
House Judiciary hearing 2/26
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/18
HB1383 - Children in Need of Assistance - Permanency Plan Requirements - support (CPMC priority bill)
House Judiciary hearing 3/12
House Judiciary hearing 3/10
Senate Finance hearing 3/10
HB1418 - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Employing Individuals Charged with Crimes - Prohibition - monitoring
House Ways & Means hearing 3/12
HB1484 - Child Sex Offenders - Plea Agreements and Places for Children -
House Judiciary hearing 3/10 - monitoring
HB1485 - Public Health - Crisis Response System - Resources for Family Members and Trauma-Informed Care Training (Tiarra's Law) - monitoring
House Health hearing 3/3
HB1487 - Public Health – Baltimore City Mobile Infant and Maternal Health Pilot Program - support
House Health hearing 3/11
HB1501 - Department of Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification - monitoring
House Health hearing 3/12
HB1559 - Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients - Placement - support
House Health & Appropriations hearing 3/3
SB0604 - Adoption, Foster Care, and Public Services - Prohibition Against Discrimination - support
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 2/18
SB0736 - Criminal Law - Obscene Matter - Visual Representation of Child - support
Senate Judicial Proceedings hearing 3/3
SB0738 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Mobile Crisis and Crisis Stabilization - support
Senate Finance hearing 3/4
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