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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
+description: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 600"
+citation: "Maryland HB 600 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Attar", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Guyton", "Harris", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Rose", "Taveras", "Williams", "Wims"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3dcaa9e-4b62-4716-8bdd-19c2bd8f9c5a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0600?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2007c8b2f79317eca0d0d5a381cc0575cb6f43149900dd03f8a3c3fe3b846850"
+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 600 (2025) — Educational Equality for Service Members Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_256_hb0600t.pdf)
+2. **First - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0600f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0600t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Pruski — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3dcaa9e-4b62-4716-8bdd-19c2bd8f9c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+