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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure"
+description: "Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 587"
+citation: "Maryland SB 587 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Administrative Agencies", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Appropriations", "Committees and Commissions", "Deaf Persons", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Libraries"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["King"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-02"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbe62cf6-dcbd-4004-9b91-e70de4ca137e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB587&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "5627409a8bd03675d8ead4f050b229f74c1c871934efb01907a73fb7e8422902"
+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 587 (2017) — Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure
+
+## 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/sb0587f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- King — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2017-02-24** Hearing canceled
+- **2017-02-24** Hearing 3/01 at 2:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {679033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbe62cf6-dcbd-4004-9b91-e70de4ca137e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+