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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)"
+description: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 3"
+citation: "Maryland HB 3 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beauchamp", "Miller", "Pasteur", "Schindler", "Woorman", "Ziegler"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-09-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc35424d-f103-41c5-a605-e7fe09192ca8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0003?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "646b66fdcedb5eef44925847eb4299fd0d8816a3e8628f32586fc78524dad565"
+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 3 (2026) — Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_798_hb0003e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003e.pdf)
+3. **First - Higher Education - Nonresident Tuition - Exemption for Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Higher Education - Nonresident Tuition - Exemption for Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beauchamp — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Schindler — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+- Ziegler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-04** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-09** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-02-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-13** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc35424d-f103-41c5-a605-e7fe09192ca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+