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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Carroll and Howard County Boards of Education – Establishing Innovative Regional Schools – Authority (Cross–County Attendance to Achieve Efficiency Act of 2019)"
+description: "Carroll and Howard County Boards of Education – Establishing Innovative Regional Schools – Authority (Cross–County Attendance to Achieve Efficiency Act of 2019)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 653"
+citation: "Maryland SB 653 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Appropriations", "Boundaries", "Carroll County", "Collective Bargaining", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Construction", "Curriculum", "Disabilities", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Howard County", "Jurisdiction", "Notices", "Prices", "Public Schools", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "School Administration", "Students"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hester and Ready"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a988bdd-44dc-4416-a279-d8cdcdac50cf"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB653&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "eab5ed19f88dd31c5e73c5a62b21303a5169e96e8f355176557572e4ecb74bc8"
+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 653 (2019) — Carroll and Howard County Boards of Education – Establishing Innovative Regional Schools – Authority (Cross–County Attendance to Achieve Efficiency Act of 2019)
+
+## 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/sb0653f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hester and Ready — primary (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 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-15** Hearing canceled
+- **2019-02-15** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {244033/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Laid Over (Senator Washington) Adopted
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {244033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {995964/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 528 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a988bdd-44dc-4416-a279-d8cdcdac50cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+