---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
description: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 462"
citation: "Maryland HB 462 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Foster Care", "Higher Education", "Indigent Persons", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Tuition", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["P. Young"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c7c36e0-412f-4a5f-b25b-5cbce2017efd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB462&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5fc990398e7f1868646de27cfa773603419c1858ad4704aa768f51c4416304c2"
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 462 (2017) — Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations

## 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/hb0462f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- P. Young — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {345062/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** 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** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c7c36e0-412f-4a5f-b25b-5cbce2017efd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).