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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Career Preparation Expansion Act"
+description: "Career Preparation Expansion Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 978"
+citation: "Maryland SB 978 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Private Sector Labor and Industry", "Administrative Agencies", "Apprentices", "Armed Forces", "Committees and Commissions", "Credit", "Data", "Demographics", "Disclosure", "Education", "State Department of", "Health", "Department of", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Industry and Technology", "Job Training", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Privacy", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca3c06e9-b820-469c-9e0c-e3f49d62d8ec"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB978&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "0f3ef936f05dee65931611d0eed0d804529a9c77943d87759fc544c24640d1ae"
+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 978 (2018) — Career Preparation Expansion Act
+
+## 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/sb0978f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **123–12** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {824339/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Economic Matters and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {163696/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (123-12) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca3c06e9-b820-469c-9e0c-e3f49d62d8ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+