Maryland legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Maryland SB402: Residential Child Care Programs - Education of Children and Training of Child and Youth Care Practitioners
Status: Signed into law, May 26, 2026
Repealing the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support; requiring operators of certain residential child care programs to provide certain educational opportunities to the children for whom they have legal custody or care and control; requiring that applicants to be child and youth care practitioners undergo certain training; prohibiting an individual who holds a certificate as a residential child and youth care practitioner from being required to complete certain training; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Residential Child Care Programs - Education of Children and Training of Child and Youth Care Practitioners FOR the purpose of repealing requirements that operators of certain residential child care programs enroll a child for whom they have legal custody or care and control in a certain school and initiate and monitor the transfer of certain records of the child; the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support…
From the enrolled text, June 3, 2026:
AN ACT concerning Residential Child Care Programs - Education of Children and Training of Child and Youth Care Practitioners FOR the purpose of repealing requirements that operators of certain residential child care programs enroll a child for whom they have legal custody or care and control in a certain school and initiate and monitor the transfer of certain records of the child; the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support; requiring operators of certain residential child care programs to provide certain educational opportunities to the children for whom they have legal custody or care and control; requiring that applicants to be child and youth care practitioners undergo certain training; requiring an individual who has a certain certification on a certain date to complete certain training before the individual's certificate is renewed; prohibiting an individual who holds a certificate as a residential child and youth care practitioner from being required to complete certain training under certain circumstances; and generally relating to residential child care programs. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 7-309 Annotated Code of Maryland (2025 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Health Occupations Section 20-302.1 Annotated Code of Maryland (2021 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, …