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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program and Study"
+description: "Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program and Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 324"
+citation: "Maryland SB 324 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-22"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d94ab0f0-1d79-41b4-a8de-d7898d7b0ab1"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0324?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "7811e4a9d71abbbce889a07894f008ae4c8f6a5c47999ec52109a2e0c8578571"
+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 324 (2026) — Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program and Study
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_613_sb0324t.pdf)
+2. **First - Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0324f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Higher Education - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Direct Admission Program and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0324t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-22** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-21** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-26** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-07** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 1:15 p.m.
+- **2026-04-07** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d94ab0f0-1d79-41b4-a8de-d7898d7b0ab1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+