---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Members - Appointment and Removal"
description: "Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Members - Appointment and Removal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 562"
citation: "Maryland HB 562 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Baltimore City", "Committees and Commissions", "Education", "Boards of", "Governor", "Public Officials", "Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes (By Request - Baltimore City Administration)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b21b576-2787-4bc2-9ade-77e76d682afc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB562&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "106b74f8b456ff88fa522edd6be9951e16db29bb49474228ed0fad3b72acf3d1"
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 562 (2017) — Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Members - Appointment and Removal

## 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/hb0562f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **97–42** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **105–31** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hayes (By Request - Baltimore City Administration) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {925165/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (97-42) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {154731/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (105-31) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b21b576-2787-4bc2-9ade-77e76d682afc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).