---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Board of Education"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Board of Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 716"
citation: "Maryland HB 716 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Anne Arundel County", "Committees and Commissions", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anne Arundel County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92c21228-5559-4ed8-9cd5-4d953891e78a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB716&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5ad2255889b97a047569c249f026fb7d87bc7979c655c9816d46ca194af1e494"
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 716 (2017) — Anne Arundel County - Board of Education

## 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/hb0716f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **43–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anne Arundel County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {425962/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Floor Amendment {353628/1 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (43-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 473 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92c21228-5559-4ed8-9cd5-4d953891e78a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).