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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established"
+description: "Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 903"
+citation: "Maryland HB 903 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Atterbeary", "Bouchat", "Buckel", "Ebersole", "Edelson", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Grossman", "Guzzone", "Hartman", "Henson", "Hill", "Hornberger", "Kaufman", "Korman", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Terrasa", "Watson", "Wells", "Wilkins", "Wilson", "Wims", "Wu", "Young", "Ziegler"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-02"
+last_action: "2024-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/effd9086-1b29-4b51-ad2e-7221700c2b89"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0903?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "58bc1715470e0b9dadc0f6244e2d30e01aede2be0490c45fda2d33d748ec163e"
+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 903 (2024) — Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_171_hb0903e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903e.pdf)
+3. **First - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **131–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Bouchat — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Edelson — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Grossman — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Korman — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Wilson — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+- Ziegler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-13** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Floor Amendment {
+- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/effd9086-1b29-4b51-ad2e-7221700c2b89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+