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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie Act)"
+description: "Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 547"
+citation: "Maryland HB 547 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Appropriations", "Education", "Names"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c33c9159-d555-42fa-be22-0b58cf8e4141"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB547&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "b7528d66711106d6a14bb07ae0c04905233ddee9501e3d7f3f9791f1b0fba24e"
+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 547 (2018) — Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie Act)
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0547f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **128–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/08 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {434369/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-30** Special Order until 4/2 (Delegate Jones) Adopted
+- **2018-04-03** Special Order until later this session (Delegate Jones) Adopted
+- **2018-04-03** Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate McIntosh) Adopted
+- **2018-04-03** Floor Amendment {103722/1 (Delegate Walker) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (128-8) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-09** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c33c9159-d555-42fa-be22-0b58cf8e4141`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+