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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations"
+description: "State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 708"
+citation: "Maryland HB 708 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Operating Budget", "State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Counties - Generally", "Education", "State Department of", "Grants", "Minorities", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Sports and Recreation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Walker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-02"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f1b36ab-9a97-4afd-8a53-9c172649499a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB708&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "39bf47bd468dbce7291f07f6e913cfb80194b08fc019050df783957b8f173fc0"
+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 708 (2017) — State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations
+
+## 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/hb0708f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Cassilly) — **9–33** (fail) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Walker — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {245761/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Special Order until 3/31 (Senator DeGrange) Adopted
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-03** Special Order until 4/5 (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
+- **2017-04-06** Special Order until 4/7 (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
+- **2017-04-10** Motion Special Order until next session (Senator Cassilly) Rejected (9-33)
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f1b36ab-9a97-4afd-8a53-9c172649499a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+