---
type: "Bill"
title: "Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships - Eligibility, Award Amounts, and Use of Funds"
description: "Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships - Eligibility, Award Amounts, and Use of Funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Maryland HB 12 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Armed Forces", "General Assembly", "Higher Education", "Residency", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Tuition", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Howard"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-10-18"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2b50862-43f1-41c6-bc4a-926478adaec7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB12&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d154cc23cedb1c0ff993415f0be7d1fe2883748f9026631c2d19fedd8278bdf4"
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 12 (2017) — Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships - Eligibility, Award Amounts, and Use of Funds

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0012f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- S. Howard — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-10-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {265466/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {274936/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 543 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2b50862-43f1-41c6-bc4a-926478adaec7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).