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+type: "Bill"
+title: "The Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017"
+description: "The Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 424"
+citation: "Maryland SB 424 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Disabilities", "Education", "State Department of", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Reports", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students", "Sunset", "Textbooks"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rosapepe"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-27"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d9c55b3-8bf9-4f34-81f3-c9f236f5ad88"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB424&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "f7c0d520b7579a56ddee9aeffe2bf443007ce3656dfbc7a52ef02777f1e91988"
+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 SB 424 (2017) — The Textbook Cost Savings 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/sb/sb0424f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **44–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (44-2) `passage`
+- **2017-03-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {434460/2 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-2) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d9c55b3-8bf9-4f34-81f3-c9f236f5ad88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+