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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers"
+description: "Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 285"
+citation: "Maryland SB 285 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Carozza"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-21"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9945efaa-e3b2-4271-880f-eeabbdd4c03d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0285?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "5de2e87bb8ee102a97708432bdd0d44d5f71fa8a5794835602c401bdd3bed0aa"
+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 285 (2026) — Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_681_sb0285t.pdf)
+2. **First - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0285f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0285t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-22** Hearing 2/04 at 11:00 a.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
+- **2026-03-18** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-18** Floor Amendment {
+- **2026-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-20** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-21** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9945efaa-e3b2-4271-880f-eeabbdd4c03d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+