---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority"
description: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 561"
citation: "Maryland HB 561 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Committees and Commissions", "State Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd36c6f9-0266-4a5a-a53c-cd7ff26ac67a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB561&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ff5e109625d3b195ec646f99db517219f164c3e5870b709b33f83b53256706a2"
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 561 (2017) — Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority

## 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/hb0561f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (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.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** 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
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd36c6f9-0266-4a5a-a53c-cd7ff26ac67a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).