2025 Regular Session • Maryland Legislature
HB1205: Family Law - Prospective Foster Care Parents and Out-of-Home Placements
Legislative Summary
Requiring a local department of social services to provide non-confidential information to a prospective foster care parent on the medical, educational, and behavioral history of a child as it directly relates to the care of a child in an out-of-home placement; and authorizing a local department of social services to place up to four foster children in an out-of-home placement.
Demographic Impact
Overall analysis of equity impact
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Bill History
2/6/2025
First Reading Judiciary
House of Delegates
2/7/2025
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
3/3/2025
Withdrawn by Sponsor
House of Delegates
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(2/6/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Sponsors
Republican: 4
Primary Sponsor

William Wivell
Republican