---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Funding"
description: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 556"
citation: "Maryland HB 556 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Grants", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4abd3d49-333f-4921-b2cb-9e0d8c6a3cdb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB556&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ca6bb44cb84ff2b0c6c4d31fda82a788edd801a2d9de98bfea3f06755d7db6b2"
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 556 (2017) — Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Funding

## 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/hb0556f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {134969/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4abd3d49-333f-4921-b2cb-9e0d8c6a3cdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).