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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions"
+description: "Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 734"
+citation: "Maryland SB 734 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Audiologists and Speech Pathologists", "Communications", "Curriculum", "Data", "Disclosure", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Department of", "Electronic Communication", "Electronic Government", "Examinations", "Forms", "Job Training", "Language", "Literacy", "Local Government Mandates", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Prices", "Psychologists", "Public Information", "Public Schools", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "School Testing", "Special Education", "Students", "Teachers", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa5be3ff-bc22-49a0-ad4e-ebb57a399968"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB734&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "c4c3816de6baabe1a461b2d383547d5e6b9ab81d2341775ab002f83dc561a221"
+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 734 (2019) — Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions
+
+## 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/sb0734f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- West — 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 2/26 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 {864034/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Special Order until later today (Senator Eckardt) Adopted
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {864034/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** 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.
+- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {255465/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa5be3ff-bc22-49a0-ad4e-ebb57a399968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+