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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway"
+description: "Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 297"
+citation: "Maryland HB 297 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-09-16"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ee43a4b-9dd2-4b41-9e32-db3f2f278536"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0297?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "a212315352cc0ef07d9ce253b9d9a5f6a1550b83e75395de68d89962cacbd874"
+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 297 (2026) — Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_169_hb0297e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0297e.pdf)
+3. **First - Adult Education – High School Diploma Pathways – GED Option Pilot Program and MDiplomaWorks Pathway** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0297f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Adult Education - High School Diploma Pathways - MDiplomaWorks Pathway** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0297t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **128–7** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **124–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-16** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-02** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-02-02** Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-16** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ee43a4b-9dd2-4b41-9e32-db3f2f278536`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+