---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Adult Correctional Institutions - Job Training and Education"
description: "Higher Education - Adult Correctional Institutions - Job Training and Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Maryland HB 459 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Public Safety", "Correction", "Division of", "Correctional Institutions", "Higher Education", "Job Training", "Prisoners", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec1c1e3e-5bd2-4786-be83-8c0143b82a03"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB459&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "cec0e3dd8a3fe8d846cbd3a4f84a1c6f66913df65681eabcbe48154a4324efcf"
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 459 (2017) — Higher Education - Adult Correctional Institutions - Job Training and Education

## 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/hb0459f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **99–37** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **110–29** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Special Order until 2/22 (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (99-37) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Floor Amendment {563527/1 (Senator Hough) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (110-29) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec1c1e3e-5bd2-4786-be83-8c0143b82a03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).