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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
+description: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 679"
+citation: "Maryland HB 679 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Public Schools", "School Administration", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d5c922-cdba-4679-adac-9eb29c9e6357"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB679&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9f8118aaa677751d24d20671f33797f20bfca1b8c35f01b702bc73875f4c314e"
+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 679 (2018) — County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments
+
+## 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/hb0679f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **125–12** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **134–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {115060/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Special Order until 3/7 (Delegate Parrott) Adopted
+- **2018-03-07** Floor Amendment {243627/1 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (125-12) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {204032/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (134-4) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29d5c922-cdba-4679-adac-9eb29c9e6357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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