---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion"
description: "Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 654"
citation: "Maryland HB 654 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Education", "Students", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB654&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a8c9e46275c50928416baf5b71d1b28b86165ceeb0600f52f3ee2f915551f8f1"
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 654 (2017) — Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion

## 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/hb0654f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-23** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** 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 326 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).