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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)"
+description: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 840"
+citation: "Maryland HB 840 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Hill", "Kaiser", "McCaskill", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-29"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c6641e5-4045-40b1-9ed1-2c041be63b15"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0840?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "5465b4c2d043d3925fe9267d2dd0eb4937a557bb71b30a74a2fe1f7dbeef9f06"
+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 840 (2025) — Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_336_hb0840t.pdf)
+2. **First - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0840f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0840t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Addison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-29** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/05 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-14** 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 336 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c6641e5-4045-40b1-9ed1-2c041be63b15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+