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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017"
+description: "Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 287"
+citation: "Maryland HB 287 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Food", "Grants", "Public Schools", "Reports", "Students"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hixson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-23"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f10dc99-2e60-4bec-9a77-5dbde9ad7056"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB287&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "d857065c991bd3509550a89420270f3ab4e525b442a1b17da8ff2fdce107c1be"
+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 287 (2017) — Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0287f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **127–10** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hixson — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Branch — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-17** Favorable with Amendments {635469/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-21** Third Reading Passed (127-10) `passage`
+- **2017-02-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f10dc99-2e60-4bec-9a77-5dbde9ad7056`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+