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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
+description: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 701"
+citation: "Maryland SB 701 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Foster Care", "Higher Education", "Indigent Persons", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Tuition", "Youth"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe541277-8672-4138-bd39-050fd73b997e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB701&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "de120a42475babfa091d9c1dd708869910515902d2b3f8be7a3a046905c68e90"
+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 701 (2017) — Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations
+
+## 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/sb0701f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 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 (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-10** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** 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 320 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe541277-8672-4138-bd39-050fd73b997e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+