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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion"
+description: "Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 654"
+citation: "Maryland HB 654 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Education", "Students", "Teachers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-01"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB654&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "a8c9e46275c50928416baf5b71d1b28b86165ceeb0600f52f3ee2f915551f8f1"
+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 654 (2017) — Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion
+
+## 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/hb0654f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-23** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-01** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+