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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Cyber Warrior Diversity Program - Established"
+description: "Higher Education - Cyber Warrior Diversity Program - Established"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 615"
+citation: "Maryland SB 615 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Community Colleges", "Cybersecurity", "Education", "Governor", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Job Training", "Licenses", "Minorities", "Reports", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20992e36-3327-42ca-9acb-11c5de548f44"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB615&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "b50f4c4c7a53117ac4e18337380ffa22099b005dd914def1d01d3884b496578e"
+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 615 (2018) — Higher Education - Cyber Warrior Diversity Program - Established
+
+## 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/sb/sb0615f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **132–1** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robinson — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {264135/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {584565/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (132-1) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20992e36-3327-42ca-9acb-11c5de548f44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+