2025 Regular SessionMaryland Legislature

HB649: Family Law - Children in Foster Care - Background Information

Legislative Summary

Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child has had any interaction with a law enforcement agency, including any arrests, been charged with or found guilty of a crime, been a member of or associated with a criminal gang, or been suspended or expelled from school.

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Bill History

1/24/2025
First Reading Judiciary
House of Delegates
1/31/2025
Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing canceled
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing 2/20 at 11:00 a.m.
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing canceled
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
House of Delegates
3/12/2025
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
House of Delegates