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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing Act of 2017)"
+description: "Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing Act of 2017)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 452"
+citation: "Maryland SB 452 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Board of", "Public Schools", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Manno"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95548bb7-497e-431b-8b0d-ef5197b8d241"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB452&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "12aff66998c93c424f9c1cdd5970d1a3543f707b6eb5d2c4ce9b6519e5f60006"
+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 452 (2017) — Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing 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/sb0452f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Manno — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {824533/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {605167/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95548bb7-497e-431b-8b0d-ef5197b8d241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+