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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: "SB 729"
+citation: "Maryland SB 729 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Board of", "Emergency Bills", "Public Schools", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["King"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-02"
+last_action: "2018-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86380114-83bd-484b-8846-1e8c64275586"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB729&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "59f991ab06396656bba4527eaab21ba81593f7be72dc71b7b2fd8b73f668f57e"
+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 729 (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/sb/sb0729f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **132–6** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- King — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/28 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 {384530/1 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 Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-22** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {965062/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (132-6) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 34 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86380114-83bd-484b-8846-1e8c64275586`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+