---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Attendance Policy"
description: "Education - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Attendance Policy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 616"
citation: "Maryland HB 616 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Electronic Government", "Parents and Guardians", "Pregnancy", "Public Information", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5df83c8-7af2-44ea-96fe-4ad7a558c04e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB616&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "255b7174f6dbfcbe5f4795886d0044868fd30470e03b528e3409f9757eaa062f"
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 616 (2017) — Education - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Attendance Policy

## 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/hb0616f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **125–13** (pass) · legislature
- Floor Amendment {843526/1 (Delegate Aumann) — **52–85** (fail) · legislature
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 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 {465466/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Special Order until 3/08 (Delegate Aumann) Adopted
- **2017-03-08** Floor Amendment {843526/1 (Delegate Aumann) Rejected (52-85) `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (125-13) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {444532/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2017-04-10** Motion Recede (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Senate Recede
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (36-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5df83c8-7af2-44ea-96fe-4ad7a558c04e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).