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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events (Connor and Raina's Law)"
+description: "Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events (Connor and Raina's Law)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 617"
+citation: "Maryland HB 617 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderton", "Arikan", "Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Ciliberti", "Clark", "Corderman", "Cullison", "Hettleman", "Hill", "Hornberger", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Lehman", "Lisanti", "Love", "Malone", "McKay", "Metzgar", "Moon", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-29"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7966c86-006b-44d1-8b0f-3c51e6fe9e4e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0617?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "d3e2313368dd9ae0c1c0ec4454e861a2e08bb1c965ec2e809e01399b55c13fea"
+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 HB 617 (2020) — Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events (Connor and Raina's Law)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events (Connor and Raina's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_624_hb0617t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0617f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Medical Cannabis - Policy for Administration During School Hours and Events (Connor and Raina's Law)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0617t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **130–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderton — primary (person)
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Ciliberti — primary (person)
+- Clark — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Krebs — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Lisanti — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Malone — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- Metzgar — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
+- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-14** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 624 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7966c86-006b-44d1-8b0f-3c51e6fe9e4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+