---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations"
description: "State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 708"
citation: "Maryland HB 708 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Operating Budget", "State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Counties - Generally", "Education", "State Department of", "Grants", "Minorities", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Sports and Recreation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f1b36ab-9a97-4afd-8a53-9c172649499a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB708&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "39bf47bd468dbce7291f07f6e913cfb80194b08fc019050df783957b8f173fc0"
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 708 (2017) — State Department of Education - Lacrosse Opportunities Program - Youth Lacrosse Nonprofit Organizations

## 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/hb0708f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Cassilly) — **9–33** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Walker — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/24 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 {245761/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Special Order until 3/31 (Senator DeGrange) Adopted
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Special Order until 4/5 (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
- **2017-04-06** Special Order until 4/7 (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Motion Special Order until next session (Senator Cassilly) Rejected (9-33)
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f1b36ab-9a97-4afd-8a53-9c172649499a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).