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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Community Colleges - Workforce Readiness Grant Program - Established"
+description: "Community Colleges - Workforce Readiness Grant Program - Established"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 515"
+citation: "Maryland SB 515 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Community Colleges", "Curriculum", "Gifts", "Governor", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Industry and Technology", "Job Training", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2566f591-201a-47a8-a8ab-6c88742e8513"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB515&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "e1c5cf1bbaa60b6afc8b21821515cf0e165e721cda9c6d062cd5a81008917bd6"
+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 515 (2019) — Community Colleges - Workforce Readiness Grant 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0515f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ferguson — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {804632/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2566f591-201a-47a8-a8ab-6c88742e8513`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+