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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions"
+description: "Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 786"
+citation: "Maryland HB 786 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Bouchat", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Embry", "Kaufman", "Maryland Judiciary", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Taylor", "Toles", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-29"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2408636-aa94-4337-af8e-d61ee82d96da"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0786?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "330b8e3aea6714f7d15a4f4de33fd38aa06453e337307d0509c5013cea0df6c3"
+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 786 (2025) — Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_140_hb0786t.pdf)
+2. **First - Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0786f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Appellate Court of Maryland - Sessions at Educational Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0786t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Bouchat — primary (person)
+- Chair, Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Embry — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Maryland Judiciary — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Simpson — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-29** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-07** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2408636-aa94-4337-af8e-d61ee82d96da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+