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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures"
+description: "Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 263"
+citation: "Maryland SB 263 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Feldman", "Gallion", "Harris", "Hester", "Kagan", "Simonaire", "Watson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-19"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f74ca23a-8df0-4042-a481-de9e94de2420"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0263?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "eed892f3fac900fb2c0ac16c408be0e96169eab68c1365b53d2d787baedb02b7"
+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 SB 263 (2026) — Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_645_sb0263t.pdf)
+2. **First - Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0263f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Education - Dependent Children of Active Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0263t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-19** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-02-19** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-16** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing 3/25 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2026-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f74ca23a-8df0-4042-a481-de9e94de2420`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+