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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Eligibility - High School Diploma by Examination"
+description: "Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Eligibility - High School Diploma by Examination"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 781"
+citation: "Maryland HB 781 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Awards", "Medals and Prizes", "Committees and Commissions", "Education", "Examinations", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Indigent Persons", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mosby"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7836854a-3d76-46c6-baf1-ab36b57ba029"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB781&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "6577f56655c72aa78fa096d985dd1b4624f03522d07f530bbc91e2cb87552767"
+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 781 (2018) — Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Eligibility - High School Diploma by Examination
+
+## 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/hb0781f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mosby — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-20** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-02-20** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {105567/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7836854a-3d76-46c6-baf1-ab36b57ba029`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+