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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Student Loan Refinancing Program - Market-Specific Consultant Study"
+description: "State Student Loan Refinancing Program - Market-Specific Consultant Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 605"
+citation: "Maryland HB 605 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Higher Education", "Loans", "Reports", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-29"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2709f80c-01d2-41dc-b5ba-773f215e3f61"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB605&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "d171e0d08c00bfb3ae21d4e3f23c923950b214fe289bb3eb6aae6361d6ba8fff"
+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 605 (2018) — State Student Loan Refinancing Program - Market-Specific Consultant Study
+
+## 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/hb0605f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **123–14** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **129–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Barve — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-26** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (123-14) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-05** Reassigned to Finance
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Committee Amendment {417573/1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-2) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (129-8) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2709f80c-01d2-41dc-b5ba-773f215e3f61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+